How does ego and task involving instructions affect our behaviour in physical activity?

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How does ego and task involving instructions effect our behaviour in physical activity?

Introduction

It is thought that everyone's outcome of performance is down to how there motivated, its said to be able to predicted thorough the achievement goal theory. But there is limited research to give more incite into what motivates best, this can be great tool in how to reach the full potential of ones ability. If the theory is right then the results can be used to shine some more light on coaching. The variables to be compared and applied are is ego and task involving groups (independent) and time taken to complete the motor task (dependent). This will be used to distinguish what's true about what past researchers think about applying achievement goal theory into teaching and coaching, weather the achievement goal theory is just that of fiction.

Hypothesis

The aim of this study is to distinguish which is a bigger motivator ego or task at hand, ego being ones conscious oversee of what other peoples perception of their performance and task being ones oversee of doing well on the task. To do