PSYC 1210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: W. M. Keck Observatory, Child Neglect, Team Building
8 Dec 2016
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Sports psychology: cognitive behavioral therapy, designed to make you feel good about yourself, raise your self-worth, and improve performance, think-feel-perform, objectives of spex. Understand the effects of psychological factors on physical and motor performance. Understand the effects of participating in physical activity on psychological development, health, and well-being: specialties. Clinical sport psych- licensed, work with athletes with clinically diagnosed issues. Educational sport psych- mental coach, work on performance enhancement. History of sports psychology: period 1: 1895-1920. Norman triplett (indiana u)- conducts 1st sport psychology experiment on audience effects for cycling. Coleman griffith (u of illinois)- conducts informal studies of football and basketball players: period 2: 1921-1938. Coleman griffith- father of american sport psychology, developed first lab in sports psych, conducted studies with chicago cubs and worked with notre dame football coach: period 3: 1939-1965. Franklin henry (uc berkeley)- developed scientific aspect and created discipline of exercise and sports science: period 4: 1966-1977.
