This course is designed to acquaint students with the overview of sport psychology, its role in sport performance, characteristics and method of prognoses, attention in sport, and motor learning .It also deals about motivation, emotion, aggression, anxiety and arousal of an athlete. Besides, it focuses on personality development, performance, behavior and interaction of athletes.
Course Objectives: At the end of this course, the student should be able to:
· Describe the term “sport psychology”
· Explain the history of sport psychology.
· Identify the classification and role of sport psychology.
· Explain Information processing within the nerves system of the athlete
· Describe the relationship between Personality and sport
· Explain the effect of Aggression , Anxiety and arousal in sport
· Describe the term “Motivation” and its relationship with sport performance.
· Describe the term “Self confidence” and its relationship with sport performance.
· .list the importance of team cohesion
- Teacher: Daniale Gatente