Social Facilitation

Definition

positive influence of others on sports performance

Social Inhibition

negative influence of others which leads to decreased performance in sport

Evaluation apprehension

feeling of being evaluated that leads to increased arousal

Home vs Away

teams often win more games at home

can be negative as increased pressure

Personality factors

extroverts perform better with an audience

introverts perform worse

Levels of experience

elite more likely to perform better infant of audience

Types of skill

simple or gross high arousal will help

complex or fine need low arousal, crowd will have a negative impact

Other influences

nature of audience

physical proximity of audience

How to minimise effects of social inhibition

block out audience

use imagery/ mental rehearsal

have an audience at training

decrease importance of competition