PSYC 3480 Midterm: sport midterm

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

Document Summary

Sport and exercise psychology: an interdisciplinary scientific and applied field that embraces the integration of sport science and psychological knowledge. It includes cognitive psychology, clinical and counseling psychology, biological psychology, social psychology, developmental psychology and health psychology. It includes other disciplines such as computer science, sociology, medicine, education, and family studies. Positive psychology: an area of psychology concerned with understanding the process that enable people and groups to thrive. There is a belief that sport psychology focuses on abnormal behaviour, which can be true. However, people have criticized sport psychology for focusing too much on mental illness and not enough on human strength and growth. Most of sport psychology focuses on how to enhance performance, social and physical well-being and positive emotion. Resiliency can be the process of positive psychology in the context of adversity or risk. Emotional methods can focus on emotional states such as joy and happiness.