Peak Performance

Define Peak Performance. What are the psychological characteristics that determine successful or failed performance, and what can you do to enhance those that are supportive of performance?

Illustrate how the use of stable and unstable attributions can explain why some athletes persist and increase intensity, and others lose motivation and decrease intensity, even withdraw. Provide examples of each attribution.

500 words

Plagiarism is the use of someone else’s ideas without giving proper acknowledgment. The term “plagiarism” includes, but is not limited to, the use, by paraphrase or direct quotation, of the published or unpublished work of another person without full and clear acknowledgment. It also includes the unacknowledged use of materials prepared by another person or agency engaged in the furnishing or selling of term papers or other academic materials.

The Modern Language Association’s MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers defines plagiarism as follows:

  • repeating another’s sentences as your own,
  • adopting a particularly apt phrase as your own,
  • paraphrasing someone else’s argument as your own,
  • presenting someone else’s line of thinking in the development of a thesis as though it were your own.

In short, to plagiarize is to give the impression that you have written or thought of something that you have in fact borrowed from another.

Appearance

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting a hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.

Please number the pages of your essay (except for the title page)