PSY 105 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Sport Psychology, Intentionality, Stress Management
Document Summary
Ten ways sports psychology is key to performance. Sports psychology has passed in the last ten years from having an almost spectator role to being part of the ownership in all disciplines. The application of sports psychology is reaching all areas. In high performance, it is already a proven discipline in evaluation or intervention, in the search to optimize performance. In the sport of initiation, it is also growing, relying on increasingly efficient technology and ever-deeper scientific knowledge. Finally, sports psychology can also be used to maximize the positive effects of sports as a way of leisure and promoting healthy living. Terms such as attention, perception, impulse control, competitive anxiety, erroneous decision- making or precipitation are some examples that have become popular both in the media and in the language of the sports field itself. However, few people know anything about its measurement, analysis, intervention and improvement. That is just the field of sports psychology.
