Group Cohesion
Groups are _____ and not ______.
What is dynamic and not static?
The most important personal factor associated with cohesion.
What is satisfaction?
The standard for behavior that is expected of members of the group (may be task irrelevant or task relevant).
What are norms?
The core of team building.
What is cohesion?
These specialists work more often with junior athletes than with pro's.
Who are sport psychologists?
The four factors which contribute to the general framework to examine the cohesion of a sports team.
What are leadership, environmental factors, team factors, and personal factors?
A personal factor related to cohesion which is found to be low in athletes who experience high task cohesion.
Referred to as being "explicitly set out by the group."
What are formal roles?
Team enhancement or team improvement for both task and social purposes.
What is team building?
First female to coach in the NFL.
Who is Jennifer Welter? (Arizona Cardinals in 2015)
Cohesion has many dimensions and is perceived in multiple ways b different groups and their members. What are the two categories?
What is group integration and individual attractions to the group?
The reduction in individual effort when people work in groups versus when they work alone.
What is social loafing?
These evolve as a result of the interactions that take place among group members.
What are informal roles?
Assisting a teammate to score instead of scoring by yourself is an example of _________.
What is an example of individual sacrifices performed during a game?
This was the oldest known team sport.
What is polo?
______ and _____ groups exhibit cohesion the least.
what are large and small sized groups?
This shows that players care about the quality of their performance and are eager to win.
How is having some competitive anxiety a benefit to the team?
Informal roles can have a ____ or a ____ affect on the team.
What are positive and negative?
The four stages of team building.
What are introductory stage, a conceptual stage, a practical stage, and intervention stage?
He founded sport psychology.
Who is Coleman Griffith?
Individuals lead the players to help build structure and push the team to a common goal. This is ______ factor of team cohesion.
What is the leadership factor?
Athletes with competitive state anxiety perceive sport situations as a ______ rather than a _______.
What are challenge and threat?
A coach has formed a new team and gives players roles but expects them to know how to perform them without any explanation or instruction. This is an example of _________.
What is role ambiguity?
Handing out unique identifiers (ex. shirts, jerseys, logos, etc) and/or emphasize traditions/history associated with the team, are all examples of ______.
What is one practical way to provide distinctiveness in a team to enhance group cohesion?
This coach(es) has won the most awards.
Who are Giovanni Trapattoni & Carlo Ancelotti (Italian soccer managers) along with Alex Ferguson (Scottish soccer manager) (7 titles each)?