the combination of characteristics or qualities that form an individual's distinctive character

a quiet, passive, reserved, shy personality type, usually associated with individual sports performance

sociable, active, talkative, out-going personality type usually associated with team sports players

Personality types

Physical education

This unit develops understanding of how to best prepare our mind for competition and explores strategies like mental rehearsal, visualisation and imagery to support peak performance.

Sports psychology: mental preparation for performance

What word means the combination of characteristics or qualities that form an individual's distinctive character?

like to do things by themselves and not mix with others

Match the personality type to the description.

Which of these would you expect an introvert to say?

Which of these are high arousal, fast paced and social sports typically enjoyed by extroverts?

With the most enjoyable first, put these activities in order according to how likely they are to be enjoyed by an introvert.

Extroverts tend to like sports such as netball because they use {{}} skills.

If you're a sociable person and like interacting with other people, which of these might you enjoy?

performer picturing themselves performing the skill perfectly

developing cognitive positive thoughts about your own performance

involves a performer exaggerating their breaths in and out

Match the stress management techniques to their definition.

Inverted U-theory outlines the relationship between performance and...

a person's characteristics that define how they interact with the world

Deliberately fouling somebody in a game of football with the intent to harm is a type of {{}} aggression.

enter an individual competition and train alone for it

participate in a small group activity such as a badminton game with friends

For someone who prefers to be on their own, order the following activities with the one the would enjoy most first.

Starter Quiz