1. OCR National Diploma in Sport Level 3
Assessment Objective 1
Sports Psychology
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2. ASSESSMENT OBJECTIVE 1
Explain the relevance of sports psychology in understanding involvement in sport and exercise.
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3. KNOWLEDGE, UNDERSTANDING AND SKILLS
The nature of the study of psychology and the various ways that it has been studied in relation to sport and exercise involvement of individuals and groups
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4. SPORTS PSYCHOLOGY
Sport psychology is a specialisation within psychology that seeks to understand psychological/mental factors that affect in, physical activity and exercise apply these to enhance individual and team performance. It deals with increasing performance by managing emotions and minimizing the psychological effects of injury and poor performance. Some of the most important skills taught are goal setting, relaxation, visualization, self-talk awareness and control, concentration, using rituals, attribution training, and periodisation.
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5. SPORTS PYCHOLOGY
The principles and theories may be applied to any human movement or performance tasks (e.g., playing a musical instrument, acting in a play, public speaking, motor skills).
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6. HISTORY OF SPORTS PSYCHOLOGY
Sports psychology is the scientific study of people and their behaviours in sport. The main job of a sports psychologist is to recognize how participation in sport exercise and physical activity enhances a person’s development.
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7. HISTORY OF SPORTS PSYCHOLOGY
The first sports psychologist has said to be a North American man from Indiana University called Norman Triplett who was born in Norman Triplett’s first finding, as a sport psychologist was that cyclists cycle faster in pairs or a group, rather than riding solo. Carl Diem, a German who lived in Berlin, was the next person to have some sort of break in the world of sports psychology by founding the world’s first sports psychology laboratory in The next lab was to be opened five years later in 1925 by A.Z. Puni at the Institute of Physical Culture in Leningrad.
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8. HISTORY OF SPORTS PSYCHOLOGY
It was also in that same year that Cloman Griffith opened the first sports psychology lab in North America. Griffith did a lot for the world and the evolving of sports psychology. He begun his research in ‘Factors that affect sport performance in 1918 and in 1923, offered the first ever sports psychology course. With saying this though, the most important development that has ever taken place in sports psychology was the International Society of Sports Psychology or The ISSP, which was formed by sports scientists from all over Europe and in 1966, a group of sport psychologists met in Chicago and they then became known as the North American Society of Sport Psychology and Physical Activity or The NASPSPA. These were the most important times in the history of sports psychology and without these things, sports psychology, probably wouldn’t be where it is today.
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9. HISTORY OF SPORTS PSYCHOLOGY
Today, sport and exercise psychologists have begun to research and provide information in the ways that psychological well-being and vigorous physical activity are related. Also, sport psychologists are beginning to consider exercise to be a therapeutic addition to healthy mental adjustment. Just recently are sport psychologists really being recognized for the valuable contributions they make in assisting athletes and their coaches in improving performance during competitive situations, as well as understanding how physical exercise may contribute to the psychological well-being of the everyday man or woman.
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