L1 - Intro

• Sport & Exercise:

  • Many emotions, & feelings experienced with sport (perceptions)
  • Although physical, inheritably emotional & psychological
• What is Sport/Ex Psych?

  • Not just about elite athletes & performance
  • Not just about sport
• Misconceptions:

  • Not just about psyching people up, to get people motivate
  • Can motivate them (eg w/ whip), but doesn’t mean that want to
  • Want them to want to
  • Not gonna work in long run if don’t want to do it
  • It's a choice - act of motivation
• Misconceptions:

  • Another stereotype, is that sport psych is about helping mental problems or those with mental disorders
  • Make sense of mental skills to help people improve (what actually do)
  • Don’t have to be sick to want to get better
• Sport Ex Psych about Thinking:

  • What's going on inside someone's mind
  • Brain controls body, Brains + Brawn = ‘Using your head!”
• Psych → ‘Perception’ (eg, stress or excitement):

  • ‘Looking’ vs ‘Seeing’
  • All look at same situation doesn’t mean we see the same answer
  • Such as the 2 different images in 1 photo
  • People with same ability can/may think/perceive differently
  • We perceive things differently