PSYC 3480 Final: Sports Psych exam study group.docx

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3480
• Professor: Dan Meegan

Document Summary

Sport and exercise are complex and involve many subdisciplines in the sport sciences. Sport and exercise psychology has made major advances throughout the world as a legitimate and applied discipline. Gill (2007) suggested that sport psychology is the branch of sport science that involves the scientific study of human behaviour in sport and in the practical application of the knowledge in sport . Vealey (2006) argued that sport and exercise psychology should be viewed as an umbrella term that might be best described as a subdispline of sport science. Cox (1998) sport and exercise psychology is a science in which the principles of psychology are applied in a sport or exercise setting: in short sport and exercise psychology means different things to various people. Sport and exercise psychology is an interdisciplinary scientific and applied field that embraces the integration of sport science and psychological knowledge. Influenced by cognitive, clinical and counselling, physiological, social, developmental and healthy psychology.