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Final KIN 306 Confidence
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Psychology
Undergraduate 3
12/13/2017

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Confidence
Definition
Belief that you can successfully perform a desired behavior.
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Self-fulfilling Prophecy
Definition
Expecting something to happen (good or bad) sets off a chain of events causing it to happen.
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
Definition
The unskilled think they're more skilled than they are while the skilled underestimate their ability. The more you study something, you know how hard it is to master. So the skilled know how far they are from their goal while someone who doesn't take it seriously only looks at the short term.
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Inverted-U Theory
Definition
Having confidence that is too low or too high can be detrimental to performance. Being in the middle allows you to use maximum effort, perform to your potential and remain consistent.
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Self-Efficacy Theory
Definition
The belief in your ability to perform a certain task. A situation specific form of confidence that explains how it is built. Created by Albert Bandura from Stanford.
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Momentum
Definition
An added or gained psychological power which changes interpersonal perceptions and influences an individual's performance.
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Positive vs Negative Momentum
Definition
Positive: Periods of competition wheere everything seems to go right.

Negative: Periods where everything seems to go wrong.
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Hot-Hand Theory
Definition
The belief that a player is more likely to succeed if they succeeded at their previous attempts. However, there is no correlation.
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