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Hello there.

Great to have you with me.

It's Mr. Broome here with a lesson on personality types, and this is a lesson from our Sports Psychology: Mental Preparation for Performance unit.

This is a great lesson where we're going to learn a little bit more about how different personalities are suited to different sports.

I wonder if you've ever been told what type of personality you have, or whether today you're going to learn a little bit more about yourself.

Let's begin, shall we? Okay, so by the end of today's lesson, you should be able to describe the characteristics of a group of people called the introverts and a group of people called extroverts, and explain how their personality type influence their suitability for different types of sports.

Okay, and the keywords for today's lesson are personality, introvert, and extrovert.

These are phrases you are going to become really familiar with during today's lesson.

But if you want to pause the video here and take a look at their definitions, feel free to do so.

But moving on to the structure of today's lesson.

It's a two-parter, and our first section is called Understanding Introvert and Extrovert Personality.

Alright, so everybody has a personality which is unique to them.

You do.

I do.

Everybody does.

Okay, and it's unique to us because it's a combination of characteristics and qualities that form your distinctive character.

They make you the person you are.

Okay, as I said, everybody has a personality which is unique to them.

Everybody's different.

However, what tends to happen and what's gonna happen today's lesson, and you'll need to know this for your GCSE PE, despite the fact that everybody's personality is unique to them, what tends to happen and something that's gonna happen in today's lesson is that people with similar personalities get grouped together.

And in today's lesson, we're going to learn about two groups called introverts and extroverts.

So people with similar personalities, of course, they're still unique, and there's certain differences about each of them, but because they are similar in personality, they're grouped together.

As I said, they're called introverts and extroverts.

So let's take a look at those.

In today's lesson, we are going to follow the story of two of our Oak characters.

And the first, as you can see on the screen, is Andeep.

Now, Andeep is an introvert, and I'm wondering if you've ever come across that phrase before.

Shortly, I'm going to reveal some of the characteristics of an introvert, somebody like Andeep.

But I wonder, before I do that, whether you can perhaps pause the video and maybe scribble down some of the things you think I'm about to say about an introvert.

What kind of personality does an introvert tend to have? Let's have a look at one of the characteristics of an introvert, and that's that they like to do things on their own and not mix with other people.

Is that something you thought? A second characteristic of an introvert is that they tend to be shy and quiet, and they avoid communication.

Okay.

Something that an introvert would tend to have is high levels of concentration.

Okay, they like tasks where they can concentrate for long periods of time.

They tend to do well in that kind of task.

And finally, introverts are generally very thoughtful people.

They're happy to be alone with their thoughts, and as with concentration, they can spend time being thoughtful.

How many of those were you expecting to see when I said that Andeep is an introvert, and I asked you to think about what characteristics we might see from an introvert? I wonder if you knew any of those.

The second character in today's lesson is Lucas.

Okay, now, Lucas, it states here is an extrovert.

Again, as we did for Andeep, I wonder what you think I'm about to reveal about extroverts.

What are the characteristics of a typical extrovert? Quickly scribble them down, as with Andeep.

So what we're going to see is that extroverts are essentially the opposite of introverts.

So something that an introvert prefers is not going to be something that an extrovert prefers.

Something that an introvert is good at is probably not something that an extrovert is good at.

And as with Andeep, we said he's very good at concentrating.

Well, with Lucas, he sometimes struggles to concentrate because extroverts tend to struggle with things that require lots of concentration.

Something Lucas enjoys is social interaction.

Again, it's the opposite, isn't it, of introverts, who prefer to be by themselves.

Lucas and extroverts tend to enjoy social interaction, enjoy being with other people, and getting to, like, play team games with them, or talk with them, or be in a group of people, and so definitely something that's opposite of an introvert, isn't it? Now, when they're by themselves, extroverts tend to be prone to boredom.

They don't particularly enjoy being by themselves for long periods of time, and so they get bored.

Again, very opposite to what we would've expected from an introvert.

And the fourth and final characteristic we're going to share here is that Lucas and extroverts tend to be enthusiastic people, very energetic, and talkative.

I wonder if you know somebody who's typically introvert, or somebody who's typically extrovert, and where would you place yourself in those two categories now that you've seen some of the characteristics of each.

Quick check for understanding based on what we've just learned about those two types of personality.

Who is also showing traits of an extrovert personality? So we know Lucas has extrovert personality.

Which of these three are demonstrating traits of an extrovert? We have Laura, A.

Laura says, "I'm not very keen on working in a team.

"I'd rather be on my own." Is that an extrovert or an introvert personality? Izzy says, "Everybody says I never stop talking." Is that something you'd expect from an introvert or an extrovert? And Aisha says, "I get so bored when I'm left on my own." Which of those three characters are demonstrating extrovert personality traits? Okay, there was actually two of our characters demonstrating extrovert personality.

I wonder if you spotted them.

It was B, Izzy, and C, Aisha.

Well done.

Let's go through each of them in turn.

So Laura said she's not very keen on working in a team and would rather be on my own, and we know that that's an introvert personality trait, isn't it? Not wanting to work with other people, not wanting to interact socially, and preferring to be by herself.

Whereas Izzy, on the other hand, says, "Everybody says I never stop talking." So you see this kind of enthusiastic, energetic, talkative person, that we said with Lucas, is an extrovert trait.

Aisha is also demonstrating extrovert personality traits by saying that she gets bored when she's left by herself.

So Aisha and Izzy are both demonstrating that they are extrovert people, and well done if you spotted that.

Second check for understanding.

Which of these statements matches an introvert personality? Is it A, that they prefer social interaction than being alone, B, have high levels of concentration, C, they're shy, quiet, and avoid communication, or D, that they sometimes struggle to concentrate? Which of those match an introvert personality? Okay, again, there were two correct answers there.

Well done if you said B and C.

Let's go through each.

Would an introvert prefer social interaction than being alone? No, we know that actually it's the opposite, isn't it? That introverts prefer being alone, and avoid social interaction when possible.

However, B, they have high levels of concentration, yes, that is definitely a trait of an introvert, and C, that they are shy, quiet, and avoid communication is also a trait of an introvert.

So well done if you recognised both of those.

D, will sometimes struggle to concentrate, and well, if you've already recognised that B is the correct answer, that they have high levels of concentration, you will quite quickly be able to rule out that they struggle to concentrate.

A and D, of course, are characteristics we would associate with extroverts because essentially it's either one or the other in the case of introverts and extroverts, isn't it? Here's your practise task for this first section, and what we have here is a table with two columns for introvert and extrovert, and four available spaces for each.

And I've put Andeep there and Lucas to remind us that Andeep is representing our introvert group today, and Lucas is representing our extrovert group in today's lesson.

So in that table, please add four characteristics of an introvert in that column, and four characteristics of an extrovert in the extrovert column.

I'll be back in a moment with the answers.

Pause the video here and complete your table.

Okay, let's begin with Andeep and the introvert group.

What are the characteristics we would expect to see in that column? Let's start from the top down.

So introverts like doing things on their own and not mixing with others.

Introverts are thoughtful.

Introverts are shy, quiet, and avoid communication, and introverts have high levels of concentration.

Well done if you got all four of those.

Now, essentially what you're probably grasping here is that when we say something about an introvert, it's generally going to be the opposite, isn't it, when we talk about an extrovert.

So your extrovert column should almost be the opposite of what we've seen there on the left-hand side with introverts.

But let's just have a quick look at Lucas and the extroverts.

So what I would hope to see there in that column is that introverts are prone to boredom when they're by themselves.

Extroverts sometimes struggle to concentrate.

So what I'd hope to see there in that column is that extroverts are prone to boredom when they're isolated or they're by themselves.

Extroverts sometimes struggle to concentrate.

Extroverts are enthusiastic and talkative, and extroverts enjoy social interaction, essentially the opposite of introverts.

Well done if your two columns look something like mine.

And that already brings us onto the second part of today's lesson.

Now, we know a lot more about what introverts and extrovert personality looks like and the characteristics of both.

We are going to look at how we can identify sports which are suited to both of those types of personality.

Now, due to the significant differences in their personalities, introverts and extroverts are attracted to different types of sports, and the skill that you're going to develop here is recognising perhaps what sport Lucas might enjoy based on the fact he's an extrovert and the different characteristics that come with being an extrovert.

Let's begin with Andeep, however, and Andeep's asking you, "What types of sports "do you think introverts like me will enjoy?" I think this is a great opportunity for you to pause the video, and just maybe list three or four sports that you think an introvert will enjoy based on the characteristics that we talked about in the first section of today's lesson.

Okay, so moving on, I wonder what you came up with there or what you thought of.

Let's take the traits of an introvert, and then we'll discuss how that might impact their sporting choices.

Okay, so one of the traits we discussed earlier was that introverts like Andeep like doing things on their own, or not mixing with others.

How might that affect the type of choices that they make when it comes to sports or physical activities? Just before I reveal it, have a little think.

How would being on their own or not mixing with others be something that affects what types of sports they like to do? That hopefully led you to think about how they might like to do individual sports, such as long distance running.

You know, going out for a two-hour run or running in a marathon, something you can do particularly, you know, by yourself and not needing to mix with other people.

A second trait that we looked at earlier was that introverts tend to have high levels of concentration.

Now, how might that have an influence on the types of sports that they choose to do? Okay, so they're probably attracted to sports which require lots of focus, something like archery, where you can't really get away without concentrating and being focused.

And a third trait that we looked at earlier in today's lesson was that introverts like Andeep tend to be shy and quiet and avoid communication.

So again, how is that gonna impact the sports that they choose to do? Well, it's very likely, isn't it, that if you don't want to communicate with others, you are not going to want to be in a team sport, such as basketball or rugby, or football or hockey.

Certainly, being shy and quiet and avoiding communication does not go hand in hand with being a team player in a team sport like the ones listed.

And something else an introvert tends to prefer is low arousal activities.

That's not something we've discussed in today's lesson.

So let's just think about what is a low arousal activity.

Well, it's something that's generally in a calm environment, okay? There's not loud and brash and big movements and lots of excitement going on.

Tends be a lot calmer, a more controlled, and relaxed environment.

So how would that impact the type of sport that Andeep would enjoy? Well, there are certain activities which are low arousal activities, such as snooker.

Okay, snooker's played in a very quiet environment.

There's no great excitement, or big movements, or loud noises, or anything like that.

It's a very calm, quiet game, and certainly what we might call a low arousal activity that Andeep and other introverts might prefer.

Let's check for your understanding so far.

So we have three sports here, and my question to you is which of these sports is an introvert, such as Andeep, most likely to enjoy? Is it A, football, B, rowing, or C, snooker? Okay, quite an easy one that I think if you were concentrating on the last slide, it is, of course, snooker.

That low arousal environment, very calm environment, that's suited to introverts.

However, what about the other two? Why did you rule out A and B? And what if I'd asked you to rank them in order, perhaps, that an introvert was most likely to enjoy? So we know that the most preferable sport would be snooker, but how about the others? Well, let's think about A, football.

Football is a high arousal activity, lots of social interaction, lots of mixing with other people, certainly everything an introvert would probably want to avoid, and so football would come low on the list of sports that people like Andeep would want to choose to do.

How about rowing? Well, we can see there, there's a lot of people in that boat.

That means there's going to inevitably be some social interaction that comes along with being in rowing.

However, it's not anywhere near as interactive socially as football is.

Look, everybody's facing in the same direction, and it's very much a high concentration sport where you need to just focus on keeping in time with other people.

And therefore, if I was to rank them, I would say that they're actually in order from least preferable to most preferable.

With rowing, it's kind of high arousal still.

It's not particularly something that an introvert would enjoy, but they'd probably much prefer that to playing football.

Lucas is back, and now we know so much about introverts, and I really think that you all have got the idea now that when we talk about introverts, we can flip it, and extroverts tend to be the opposite to introverts.

So Lucas is asking you, "How do you think we extroverts differ "in our sporting choices?" Take a moment, maybe, pause the video perhaps, and just write down a few of the things that you think extroverts would look for in a sport or a physical activity.

Okay, let's take a look.

So extroverts will seek out sports in which they can enjoy, and I've got three things for you here that extroverts would seek out.

I wonder if you can think of what I'm going to say before I say it.

Here's the first, social interaction.

That shouldn't be a surprise by now.

What we've already looked at in today's lesson is that extroverts really enjoy being with other people, communicating with other people, and there we have a football team, don't we, in a huddle before a game.

Clearly lots of social interaction there, lots of communication with others, as there will be when they get started on the game itself, and so definitely something that an extrovert would enjoy.

Extroverts like high arousal, fast-paced, and exciting situations.

This is the sport of wheelchair rugby.

This is incredibly fast-paced, lots of exciting, big tackles, lots of arousal, definitely something that an extrovert would enjoy and an introvert would not, when we think about those low arousal activities, such as snooker, that introverts much prefer.

And the final thing that an extrovert would probably prefer to be doing is skills which are gross.

Okay, gross skills where lots of muscles are used, there's big movements, such as the kind of thing, such as the kind of movements we use when playing a game like basketball, are not something where long periods of concentration are required, like in archery, for example.

Here's a quick check for understanding.

So I'm giving you three sports again here, and I'm gonna ask you to list whether the sport that you can see is suited to introverts or extroverts.

So we have A, we have like a long distance running there, B is cricket, and C is archery.

Take a few seconds to write whether you think that sport is suited to introverts or extroverts.

Okay, let's begin with A.

A is long distance running, and from the picture, we can see it's quite a quiet, serene environment.

The person is running by themselves.

It's an individual activity.

There's no social interaction, certainly not a high arousal environment or particularly exciting, and so that would lead us to believe that long distance running like this is suited more to introverts.

That's not to say an extrovert won't enjoy a long distance run occasionally, but it is a sport that's probably a lot more attractive to an introvert.

How about cricket? Cricket's a really interesting one, particularly if you've played it before.

You'll know that cricket has almost an expectation of being sociable, and being sociable with the opposition.

A lot of cricket teams will eat with the opposition and mix with them after the game.

It's part of the etiquette of cricket, as well as being a sport where there can be some really exciting, high arousal moments with gross skills needed.

Lots of social interaction, of course, 'cause it's a team game, lots of communication needed between players, and so all that should lead us to think that cricket is a sport suited particularly to extroverts.

And our third and final sport is C, is archery.

Now, this has been mentioned already in today's lesson, hasn't it, and it was associated with one of our personality types.

A sport which requires a lot of focus, low arousal, lots of concentration, there's not much social interaction.

It's very much an individual activity.

That should lead us to think that archery is definitely more suited to introverts.

Again, like I said earlier, it's not to say that extroverts wouldn't enjoy archery or long distance running, and maybe even an introvert would enjoy a game of cricket.

However, it's more suited to those personality types.

Okay, on the left-hand side, I'm just going to give you an example.

So I'm gonna name a sport, and I've chosen rugby, and then I'm gonna answer whether it's suited to introverts or extroverts.

So I'm going to think about the characteristics of the game of rugby, and then I'm gonna think about whether introverts or extroverts would prefer it, a little bit like we did just now in our check for understanding task, and I think this is a fairly obvious example of a sport that would be more suited to extroverts.

Why is that though? Well, it includes lots of social interaction.

It's a high arousal sport, isn't it? There's lots of excitement.

There's lots of big movements, so gross skills are needed.

Definitely something that would be more suited to an extrovert, and would attract extroverts to it.

Now, it's your turn on the right-hand side.

I'll give you the skeleton of it.

So the name of the sport is ice skating.

Can you answer whether it's suited to introverts or extroverts, and then why? Give you a few moments, or maybe even pause the video here to write down your answers to that.

Okay, so is ice skating suited to introverts or extroverts? In general, it would be more suited to introverts.

And why is that? What did you put? This is what I said.

Generally, ice skating can be an individual sport.

There's no reason why an introvert or anybody couldn't go to an ice rink, put on some skates, and go around the ice rink practising their ice skating and not need to speak to anybody else.

It can really be an individual sport, whereas nobody could turn up and have a game of rugby by themselves, could they? It really requires a lot of concentration, but it doesn't require a particularly high amount of communication with lots of other people.

And so it's a sport that definitely suits introverts, perhaps, more than extroverts.

Again, not that an extrovert might not enjoy a trip to the ice rink.

Well done if you had something along those lines as well.

I've got a practise task for you now, where you can demonstrate how much you've learned about identifying sports, and how they're suited to different personalities.

Andeep is back.

We know a lot about Andeep now, don't we? He's been with us all lesson.

Andeep wanted to become more active for his health, which is a great idea.

We all should.

He visited the local leisure centre.

The receptionist at the leisure centre gave him the activities and times for Monday.

Okay, 'cause Andeep can go on a Monday.

I want you to identify two activities, and you'll see the activities on the right in a moment, which might suit Andeep's introvert personality, and two of the activities which he would probably want to avoid.

I don't just want you to tell me the activity and leave it there.

I want you to give me a reason why for each.

So Andeep's been with us for the whole lesson.

Now, let's try and get him some activities that can help him to remain healthy.

Here is the list of activities that Andeep can choose from.

So from 5:00 to 6:00 pm, Andeep could take part in a circuit training class.

From 6:00 to 7:00, he could go to a yoga class or he could go to a 5-a-side football session.

From 7:00 until 8:00 pm, he could take part in some badminton.

And from 8:00 to 9:00, there's a session where he can join, which is basketball.

Take a look at that timetable, and think which activities might Andeep prefer, and which activities would he probably want to avoid? Pause the video here and write your answers, remembering to give a reason for each, and I'll see you in a moment with my suggested answers.

Okay, here's Andeep again, and let's think about activities Andeep might enjoy first from that timetable.

I wonder what you chose for the activities he might enjoy based on the fact that he's an introvert, and we know all those characteristics of an introvert from earlier in the lesson.

So Andeep would probably enjoy circuit training because although it might be in a class with lots of people involved in the class, you get to move around by yourself, and generally you'll work on your own, individually.

That means you won't have to interact with many people.

If you've done circuit training before, which I'm sure you have, you'll know that you spend a certain amount of time on a station doing an activity, let's say press-ups, for example, then there might be a rest period, or there'll be a time where you then move on to another station where maybe you're on a rowing machine, then you'll move on to another station.

But generally you don't need to interact with all the other people in the class because they'll be doing the same, and they'll be moving to different stations to you.

And so not a huge amount of social interaction.

He can concentrate on what he's doing.

Not the kind of activity perhaps an extrovert would love because of being by themselves, but certainly something that Andeep might enjoy as an introvert.

What else did we identify for Andeep to enjoy? Perhaps you said yoga, and that's for similar reasons to circuit training.

Because even though yoga is often done in class with maybe 20 people doing yoga at the same time, everybody's focused on what they're doing, so it's almost like an individual activity, but within a class.

It's definitely a calm environment, yoga.

That means it's a low arousal activity.

And as we know, low arousal activities suit introverts.

So of the timetable, the two which are probably most suitable to Andeep are circuit training and yoga.

Well done if you identified those.

How about, though, the two activities that Andeep might avoid? I wonder what you said there.

Now, there were two activities which are games, team games, which are probably very similar in their reasons why Andeep might want to avoid it.

That's football and basketball, wasn't it? They're team sports with lots of social interactions.

They both need gross skills, and they both have high arousal situations within them.

So Andeep will not be attracted to either football or basketball, given that he's an introvert.

I think that was one that most of you will have identified.

So well done.

However, there was a fifth activity on the timetable, wasn't there? I wonder if any of you chose badminton.

Badminton is perhaps a slightly more difficult one to choose whether Andeep would enjoy or not.

So I've just made some notes here about badminton because he might want to avoid it because it's not a game you can play by yourself, and so you definitely need some social interaction, and some of the skills you might say are gross skills.

But if you think about smashing or overhead clear in badminton, it's quite a gross skill, large muscle groups being needed, and we know that both of those things are not particularly attractive to introverts.

However, you can play singles badminton.

Essentially, it's you by yourself, just playing against somebody on the other side of the net.

You don't necessarily need to talk to an awful lot.

It requires a lot of concentration, and despite the fact that some of the skills are quite gross in nature and use big muscle groups, it's not a particularly high arousal game where there's lots of excitement and lots of energy, and I hope I'm not annoying any badminton players there who might disagree with me.

But in general, when badminton is played recreationally, it's quite a low arousal activity, and it might appeal to somebody like Andeep to play badminton.

That brings us on to the summary for today's lesson.

Well done for being part of today's lesson.

Let's have a look at all the things that we've learned today.

So we now know that we can categorise personality into two types, and they're called introverts and extroverts.

We also know that each of those has their own characteristics.

For example, introverts like doing things on their own, whereas extroverts enjoy social interaction.

This is also reflected in the sports that they prefer to play, with introverts preferring individual sports and those requiring lots of concentration, like in archery, for example, and extroverts prefer team sports with high arousal and gross skills, like rugby, for example.

I hope you learned a lot today about the two groups called introverts and extroverts, and a little bit more about personality, and how our personality might help us decide which sports we're going to be suited to, and which sports we'd prefer to avoid.

I've really enjoyed today's lesson.

I hope you have too.

Hope to see you again soon for another lesson.

I'll see you next time.