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1) Cohesion - ANSWER ✓ Coaches refer to it as team unity, team spirt,
teamwork
Many sports people assume cohesion = team success (not always)
2) Carron definition of cohesion - ANSWER ✓ Dynamic process which
reflects the tendancy for a group to stick together while purshuing its goals
and objectives.
3) Carrons definition empashises - ANSWER ✓ The dynamic nature of
cohesion, it is constantly changing in response to group goals and in
response to individual and groups conflicts and the resolution of these
conflicts
4) 2 types of cohesion - ANSWER ✓ Social cohesion
Task cohesion
5) Social cohesion - ANSWER ✓ Interpersonal attraction
Reflects the degree to which members of a team like eachother and enjoy
each others company
6) AKA teamspirit
7) Task cohesion - ANSWER ✓ Reflects the degree to which members of a
team work together to achieve a specific and identifiable task
8) AKA Teamwork
9) Carrons model of cohesion - ANSWER ✓ 1) environmental factors (least
important)
10) Normative forces that hold a team together, (contracts,location)
11) 2) Personal factors
12) Task motivation, affiliation motivation, self motivation
13) 3) Team factors
, 14) Group task = type of activity/ group productivity norm, team stability
15) 4)Leadership
16) Leadership style, relationship vs task orientated
17) Relationship between cohesion and performance - ANSWER ✓ +ve
relations found in:Ice hockey, basketball, baseball,
18) -ve relations found in; rowing, rifle shooting, 10pin bowling
19) Task strycutre explains these results
20) Types of task structure - ANSWER ✓ Independance
21) Co-active dependance
22) Reactive/procative dependance
23) Interactive dependance
24) Independance - ANSWER ✓ Co-ordinated action between individuals
is not required for success
25) Co-active dependance - ANSWER ✓ Members perform a similar task
simaltaniously, a collective performacne contributes directly to team
effectiveness
26) Reactive/procative dependance - ANSWER ✓ One member of the
team initiates an action while another completes the action (Bowler-
wicketkeeper)
27) Interactive dependance - ANSWER ✓ Members are mutually
dependant on each other for successful performance
28) e.g football hard to win with poor cohesion
29) The first 3 are - ANSWER ✓ largely unrelated to cohesion
30) Cohesion increses performance - ANSWER ✓ In interactive sports
31) What is a group - ANSWER ✓ Collection of individuals who have no
relations to one another that make them interdependent to some significant
degree.
32) Key requirements for a group - ANSWER ✓ Interaction
33) Mutual awareness