10 minutes to complete the activity
In pairs you will be taking it in turns to have 10 shots each at the basket.
You can choose to shoot from wherever you want and mark whether you were successful on your diagram

Name………………………………….............. Score …... / 10

Competitiveness is a key factor for distinguishing sport from recreation
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Some people are more motivated to take part in sport than others
Major motives for sporting participation are…
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Recreation (Mental benefits)
Health and fitness (Physical benefits)
Companionship (Social benefits)
Achievement
Competitive
Non-Compeitive

This has lead to a suggestion of people having a motivation to either…
Achieve
(nAch) or or
Our Starter…
Avoid failure
(Naf)
Challenging yet achieve tasks Tasks which are very easy or very hard

nAch Characteristic Naf Characteristics
Shows ‘approach’ behaviour Shows ‘avoidance’ behaviour
Seeks out challenges
Is concerned with standards
Enjoys being evaluated
Not afraid to fail
Avoids challenge- prefers very easy or very hard tasks (guaranteed success or failure)
Avoids situations where success is unknown and could be evaluated
Performs worse while being evaluated
Tends to be preoccupied with failure
Attributes performance to internal factors Attributes performance to external factors
High task persistence Lacks task persistence
Values feedback form others Doesn’t value feedback

Ego orientated- Only deem themselves to be successful if they have beaten someone else as they have demonstrated their superiority
Task/ Ego test
Task orientation- Wouldn’t mind losing as long as they have done their best as it is due to their own effort and abilities

Achievement motivation is another example of Interactionalist theory
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Achievement is influenced by the environment as well as our traits
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Our behaviour depends upon
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Likelihood of success (Task difficulty)
 Incentive value (pride/shame of relative result)
 Knowing someone's motive to take part can help you to adapt your methods of motivation to suit them
 Appropriate use of Goal setting…
E.G. Ego orientated would benefit from goals in comparison to others
Task orientated would benefit from performance criteria goals