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  2. Grit (personality trait) - Wikipedia

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    However, the level of persistency and grit may vary among people of different cultures. [33] A study completed by Müge Akbağ and Durmuş Ümmet [34] examined the role of gender in terms of grit as well as the satisfaction of psychological needs and subjective well-being. Akbağ and Ümmet found that female psychological need satisfaction was ...

  3. Persistence (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    Persistence is a key personality trait, describing an individual's propensity to remain motivated, resilient, and goal-driven in the face of challenges and difficulties they may encounter whilst carrying out tasks and working towards goals.

  4. Hebbian theory - Wikipedia

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    A challenge has been to explain how individuals come to have neurons that respond both while performing an action and while hearing or seeing another perform similar actions. Christian Keysers and David Perrett suggested that as an individual performs a particular action, the individual will see, hear, and feel the performing of the action ...

  5. Four stages of competence - Wikipedia

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    However, demonstrating the skill or knowledge requires concentration, and if it is broken, they lapse into incompetence. [1] Unconscious competence The individual has had so much practice with a skill that it has become "second nature" and can be performed easily. As a result, the skill can be performed while executing another task.

  6. Mental toughness - Wikipedia

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    Mental toughness is a measure of individual psychological resilience and confidence that may predict success in sport, education, and in the workplace. [1] The concept emerged in the context of sports training and sports psychology, as one of a set of attributes that allow a person to become a better athlete and able to cope with difficult training and difficult competitive situations and ...

  7. Human intelligence - Wikipedia

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    The theory suggests that individuals with the same level of knowledge and skill may perform badly, averagely, or excellently based on differences in self-efficacy. A key role of cognition is to allow for one to predict events and in turn devise methods to deal with these events effectively.

  8. Typical versus maximum performance - Wikipedia

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    Test of typical performance. In this case, an individual's performance is assessed according to a given situation. Answers are not right or wrong, but identify choices, preferences and strengths of feeling. Test of maximum performance: These assess the individual's ability to perform effectively under standard conditions.

  9. Goal setting - Wikipedia

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    Specifically, in a complex task where the prerequisite skills and knowledge to perform the task are not yet in place, the "do your best" condition can outperform the performance goal condition. If a high, specific learning goal is set instead then the goal-performance relationship is maintained and the (learning) goal setting condition ...