Psychology of Sport Performance

Catalog description

Psychological theories of talent development and performance enhancement in sport. KINES 429 Psychology of Sport Performance (3) Psychology of Sport Performance will provide a psychological perspective on the phenomenon of superior motor performance. The course will cover nature of superior performance, talent development processes, sources of performance crises, and self-regulation strategies used by athletes, coaches, and psychologists to enhance performance. This course will be valuable for students whose career goals involve training athletes or other performers involved in socially-evaluative performance domains. Specific objectives include (a) distinguishing the antecedents and consequences of subjective and objective performances, (b) conceptualizing motor performance and performance problems in a psychological context, and (c) matching psychologically-based performance problems with theoretically-based intervention strategies. It extends but does not duplicate existing courses in the Departments of Kinesiology and Psychology.