Sport Psychology

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Sport Psychology
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Success Factors

• Sport develops
• Healthy bodies
• Healthy personalities
• We must judge a program on the above

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Common Positive Objectives of a Sport Program

• Interest and desire to remain involved
• Participation is a form of success
• Individual improvement
• Developing sport skills
• Learning desirable values
• Fun and enjoyment
• Personal adjustment
• Improved health
• Friendship, respect, trust, satisfaction,
  confidence, knowledge, skills and fitness

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Winning Games is not the most important objective

• Most programs are judged by the scoreboard
• If winning games is the most important objective,
  we teach,
• Cheating
• To intentionally injure
• To disrespect the rights of others

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Individual Performance

• catch the individual doing something right
• Reinforce that behavior
• Design a setting where everyone will have success
• Progress to challenge the individual

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Child-Centered Approach

• Scale down games
• Adapt rules, equipment, field areas and goals
• Achieves success
• Fun
• Easier to learn

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Varied Opportunities

• Positive play opportunities
• Free play time
• Individual activities
• Team activities
• Outdoor activities
• Activities which increase their responsibility
• Officiating
• Scoring games

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Principle of Learning is Fun

• Self-improvement
• Short term and intermediate goals
• Ex basketball
• Foul shots from 50 to 85
• Fun games
• Encourage learning and enjoyment
• Eliminate waiting in lines
• Need many balls
• Volleyballs
• basketballs

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Learning is Fun continued

• Game-like activities
• Develops skill
• Follow a natural progression
• Within students reach
• Encourage creativity
• Experiment
• Plan best usage of facility
• Use 6 baskets instead of just main court

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Feedback and Communication

• Let student know how he/she is progressing
• Feedback should be
• Specific
• Always constructive
• Directed towards behavior player can control
• Mostly positive
• Immediate
• Maybe verbal or non-verbal
• Thumbs up
• Body posture
• Eye movement
• Above can be more powerful than words

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Listening

• People selectively listen
• Hear 10-20 of what people say

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Paraphrasing

• More effective results
• Use other words

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Rewards and Their Use

• Positive approach
• Ignore minor negative behavior
• Catch them doing something right
• Immediate praise

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Shaping

• Simply to the more complex
• One achievement builds on previous success
• The trick is to plan for continual success

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Reinforcement

• Jell beans
• Thumbs up
• Pat on the back
• Hand shake

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Self-Concept

• Awareness of our own make-up
• How we compare ourselves with others

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Self-Esteem

• Related to self-concept
• Value or worth one places on oneself
• The above is shaped by what adults say to young
  students
• You are a fast runner
• Positive comment
• You are a clumsy person
• Negative comment
• Students will behave the way others expect them
  to behave