KNES350 MIDTERM STUDY GUIDE Sport psychology teaches you how to mentally manage yourself Sport psychologists are there for those who need a competitive edge Those who want to learn concentration techniques goal setting For performance enhancement to overcome pressures to enhance the experience in your sport Coaches should have a sport psychology background The one particular athlete who needs a sport psychologist is an injured athlete They feel depressed neglected disconnected from their team In order to practice therapy i e become a sport psychologist you need a clinical psychology phD or masters Can t really earn a living as a sport psychologist History First used by a Notre Dame football coach Newt Rockney in 1920s Used sport psychology in the form of pep talks Applied sport psychology taking theories and applying them to sports Tried to look at players and help them with concentration to improve confidence communication skills amongst team etc 1932 professor at University of Illinois named Pullman Griffith first professor of sport psychology beginning of sport psych as universities o was also a sport psychologist for Chicago Cubs After 1930s sport psychology dropped off due to the depression and war there wasn t enough money 1960 rebirth international conference held in Rome all about performance enhancement and applied sport psychology o American sport psychologists were there and wanted to bring it back 1968 conference in DC as a result the field of sport psychology has exploded into what we know it today 1970 graduate programs for masters and phD in sport psychology o concentrated on players thoughts mental imagery attitude towards sport personality s effect on sport 1980s better research seeing more research in literature and journals of sport psychology ex exercise addition to exercise 1990s to present sport psych has evolved into psycho physiology o Brad Hatfield chair of sport psych dept Looks at activity in brain as a result of exercise when o He looks at activity under stress and how much stress can be handled when put in different o Found that elite athletes can handle same type of pressures and stresses as special forces in you are stressed situations the field o Also looks at delaying the onset of dementia and Alzheimer s through activities and exercise 1 10 of the World Almanac is devoted to sport Monday Night Football longest running television program since 1972 B F Skinner approach stimulus in psychology for sport psychology the stimulus is anything in your life that elicits a response 4 ingredients needed to be an elite athlete 1 Fitness you are always training there is no off season o Endurance training strength flexibility yoga and martial arts 2 Physique Physical endowment o Height weight vision center of gravity 3 Skill 4 Psychological o Coordination speed agility hand foot eye coordination endurance o A Needs Can satisfy tendencies through sport i e aggression Affiliation sport as a way of feeling affiliated with other people Sport teaches you to be independent gives you a sense of power Attention seeking you against someone else develops attention chance to show who are what you re about o B Personality Why you do the things you do A desire to be somebody this desire plays into your personality Important to have emotional stability in sport key to having the disposition of an elite athlete Desires to win excel Persistence you are willing to train and persist until you win perseverance and drive to be someone o If you don t have the psychological makeup and components needed for success you can t succeed as an elite athlete Individual differences that can create problems o Heredity and environment Your first environment is your parents if you were raised by biological parents and in their environment that has a big influence on who you become You have a 1 in two hundred trillion chance that you can produce exactly what you want to produce Parents and the decisions they make for their kids Todd Morinivitch 101 D1 scholarships football for USC didn t get along with coach though lacked psychological component had the other three Touted as first test tube athlete created by father Used drugs behind father s back Dad was named second worst sport parent of that time father was known for being a nutcase Todd never learned how to be a kid so when he got to college he had all this freedom all fell apart and didn t care about football anymore Athletes need a normal environment to grow up in as a child o Socioeconomic differences Certain sports cost a lot more money than others Ice hockey most expensive team sport Tennis is an expensive sport Not all kids can play all sports due to the cost o Geographic location Ex No tennis players come out of Alaska Ex Scarce ice rinks in Alabama Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell all about extraordinary opportunities hidden advantages growing up in a certain environment being at the right place at the right time luck majority of Canadian hockey players were born between Jan and March are stronger and bigger and were put into hockey schools It takes 10 000 hours to develop and elite athlete Cooper Manning record setting wide receiver his outlier was a heart condition discovered during college recruitment Attitude Toward Physical Activity exercise from course packet Developed by Dr Jerry Kenyon A psychological inventory Used statistical tool called factor analysis He administered this to hundreds of thousands Has high validity is very predictable can count on it giving the right information and testing what we want it to test Done separately for males and females Social Fitness Vertigo element of risk Aesthetic value activity for the sense of movement and what people can do with their bodies Catharsis as a way to release stress and tension Acetic How you value physical activity Attitude in general and how it effects sport and you A psychological construct used to understand behavior A mental state Is value based Associated with individual differences o Where you were born has an effect on your attitude o Religious background single parents having pets playing musical instrument Attitude based on past experiences and the effect your positive experiences have had on you You can draw on positive experiences when you need them o Skinner past positive experiences give you a framework to references o They are stored in your brain People reveal who they are based on experiences through their attitude o People watch how you respond it can