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  2. Pygmalion effect - Wikipedia

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    The behavior a leader directs at an employee can affect employee behavior consistent with the leader's expectations. Leader expectations of an employee may alter leader behavior. [ 18 ] For example, a leader may expect an employee to be engaged in learning activities and in turn, the employee may engage in more learning, consistent with the ...

  3. Posture (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    Confidence affects posture by the uprightness (or not) of one's body. [ 5 ] [ 7 ] Popular literature has come to interpret postures according to the assumptions of psychoanalysis, thinking that actions such as crossing arms over the breasts or crossing legs would be a symptom of a sexual complex. [ 17 ]

  4. Physical literacy - Wikipedia

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    Physical literacy is the foundation of long-term participation and performance to the best of one's ability. Physical Literacy is the cornerstone of both participation and excellence in physical activity and sport. Ideally, physical literacy is developed prior to the adolescent growth spurt. [6] Fundamental Movement Skills and Fundamental Sport ...

  5. Principles of learning - Wikipedia

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    These include student recall, review and summary, and manual drill and physical applications. All of these serve to create learning habits. The instructor must repeat important items of subject matter at reasonable intervals, and provide opportunities for students to practice while making sure that this process is directed toward a goal. But in ...

  6. Self-worth theory of motivation - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] Such theory commonly applies to students in the school context where frequent evaluation of one's ability and comparison between peers exist. A majority of students believe that being academically competent is a way of maintaining self-esteem, thus try to maximise their academic competence and avoid failure.

  7. Health belief model - Wikipedia

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    Developers of the model recognized that confidence in one's ability to effect change in outcomes (i.e., self-efficacy) was a key component of health behavior change. [ 7 ] [ 15 ] For example, Schmiege et al. found that when dealing with calcium consumption and weight-bearing exercises, self-efficacy was a more powerful predictor than beliefs ...

  8. Social cognitive theory - Wikipedia

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    These findings suggest the best motivational method to increase the rate of physical activity is one that first increases perceived self-efficacy. As applied to public health campaigns, the first symptom to address is low levels of perceived self-efficacy rather than low levels of physical activity, since addressing the former may rectify the ...

  9. Self-handicapping - Wikipedia

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    A study published in the year 2017 showed that self-esteem had a negative effect on self-handicapping. They found that when it came to mastery goals there was a positive effect resulting from self-esteem. It also suggested that there was a negative effect on performance-avoidance goals when it came to self-esteem.