Discuss your goals, and how possible selves theory applies to your goals and your perceptions of control.

Assignment Instructions PSY 420p:

For this assignment, you are going to watch Martin Haggar’s presentation on personal control beliefs in sport psychology. After you watch the video, you will then reflect on his video and how personal control beliefs including self-efficacy, self-regulation, goal setting, and managing emotions comes into play in athletic success, and discuss this in a short video of your own.

Sport psychology – inside the mind of champion athletes: Martin Hagger at TEDxPerth (Links to an external site.)

In your reaction, be sure to include responses to the following:

– What are the factors, including self-efficacy, self-regulation, learning through observation, visualization and self-talk all come into play in athletic performance? How does this impact motivation?

– Thinking about your own life, how can you use some of the same strategies’ athletes use to increase your motivation and performance in an activity.

-Propose two or three personal goals using the same structure Martin Haggar used in his TEDtalk:

– Discuss your goals, and how possible selves theory applies to your goals and your perceptions of control.

Personal information:

Retired US Army veteran, that currently work for the Department of Veteran Affairs. My sport of choice is mixed martial arts with discipline in Krav Maga training.

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