Sports Psychology : Introduction and Importance

1. Dr M B Ponkiya
Sports Psychology

2. What is psychology
 Psychology is Greek Word
 Psyche = Soul or Mind
 Logos = to know ( Study)
 Early times Psychology was not separate
branch but it was one part of philosophy

3. Definitions
 Psychology is the study of human behavior, it
causes and condition. ( M. C. Dougal)
 Briefly Psychology is the study of human
behavior, it causes and condition.

4. Braches of Psychology
• General Psychology
• Individual Psychology
• Applied Psychology
• Child Psychology
• Social Psychology
• Animal Psychology
• Abnormal Psychology
• Physiological Psychology
• Experimental Psychology

5. Applied Psychology
 To prevent mental Disease
 To Nurturing the children
 Proper guidance in education
 To choose the way of life
 Solve the industrial problem
 So psychologist had developed so many
branches like
 Educational psychology
 Industrial psychology
 Clinical Psychology
 Sports psychology

6. What is Sports Psychology
 Sports Psychology study the modern sports and
importance of physical education.
 Now a days, sports has its separate branches
because sports became more and more important
in day to day life.
 Competition in various sports become very tough
and competent.
 So enhance the sports performance every aspect
of sport became very much important.
 In this regards psychology has also important role
in performance of Athlete. It develop mental,
neurological and social aspect of an athlete.

7. Need of Sports Psycho+
 Following aspects need tin in development of
physical education and sports.
For learners:
 It is helpful for physical Edu. Teacher or Coach
 It is required in teaching contents.
 It is required in teaching process.
 In learning situation.

8. Motivation
 Is considered with the arousal of the interest in
learning and to that extend, is basic to learning.
(Crow and Crow)
 Motivation is the central factor in the effective
management of the process of learning. Some
types of motivation must be present in learning.
( Kelley)
 Word comes from French word “ Motiver”
Germen “ Motivieren”
Latin word “ Movere”
 Meaning is “ to move”

9.  Motivation is
 Any condition that might energies and direct our
actions.
Motivation refers to the initiation, direction,
intensity and persistence of behaviour.

10. Motive
Motivational
Behaviour
Goal
Objective form
Need, Desire or
Want
Tension
Reduction of Need & Getting Relief in Tension
Incentive or Relief

11.  Eg.
 Education = Scholarship
 Industry = Bonus
 Banks = Incentive in %

12. Type of Motivation
 Primary Motivation
 Secondary Motivation
 Intrinsic Motivation
 Extrinsic Motivation
 Addication Motivation
 Sub Conscious Motivation
 Towards or Away from orientation Motive

13.  Primary Motivation:
 It is biologically oriented primary motivation
 Need to eat, drink, be warm, avoid pain, hunger
• Secondary Motivation :
 It is learned motivation
 It is differed person to person
 Goal oriented motivation
 Parent, teachers and peer groups play important role to
develop motivation

14.  Intrinsic Motivation:
 It comes from within
 It is characterized by interest in, enjoyment
derived from
 Person choose his / her activity like
 Education, business, sports, acting, music etc.( CBCS
etc.)

15.  Extrinsic motivation :
 That comes from outside
 Extra – rewards are money, pay, promotion,
praise, awards, feedback
 Extrinsic motivation less effective than intrinsic
motivation

16.  Addiction Motivation :
 Repetition makes addiction in you to he the
lover of that thing ( drawing practice)
 It is not always positive effect due to addiction
motivation ( liquored as medicine can be habit,
smoke by doctors)

17.  Sub conscious Motivation:
 Unknowingly we do activity and its becomes
motivation ( Six figures in hands or dog run
behind scooter or car)
 Person use food in easily life for comfortless
become habit in past life.

18.  Toward or Away from orientation motivation:
 It is “carrot or stick” type motivation
 Stick people respond better to external and
internal reinforcement
 Carrot people – respond better to external or
internal rewards

19. Emotion
 Emotion play important role in individual life.
 Man pass through the process to fulfill his/her
internal interest it is call the emotion.
 Definition: emotion in fact, are the psycho-
physiological reactions through which
instinctive organism energy finds express-(M
C Dougall)

20. Instinct Emotion
Food seeking Hunger
Escape Fear
Combat Anger
Social Instinct Feeling of
Loneliness
Curiosity Wonder

21. Characteristics of Emotions
 Physical Expression:
 Man express emotion by physical expression
 Eg. In Anger – Eyes becomes Red and he/she also light
his palm
 Pulse of blood regulation increase
 Changes in the Body:
 Chemical and biological change occurred in emotion
 Respiratory system activate strongly
 Blood Circulation increase.

22.  It has wide Range:
 Emotion seen in every stage of Individual Life-
Child, Adolescent, Aged, Men or Women
 With Age growing the emotion become controllable
 Eg. Some persons afraid in very small thing and
some person become angry in small things
 Subjectivity:
 emotion is differ from person to person
 emotion can identify only experience person

23.  Persistency:
 Emotion remain for long period in individual mind
 Eg. Quarrel at home can be shown in office time on
any staff.
Increased strength for Action:
 emotion with any activity increases biological
reaction in body which convert in power to fulfill
activity
 it gives a extra power to individual
 emotion create fear which stimulate every
individual
 eg. Dog run behind man run faster than normal

24.  Lack of equilibrium:
 Due to emotion individual even loss their
mental and physical equilibrium
 Eg. At the time of anger person can
murder the opponent
 At the time of hunger individual did not
think about eatable or non eatable thing,
he eat blindly
 when he come out from emotional
disturbance he himself realize the correct
think.

25.  Lack of Intellect:
 Emotional behaviour also disturb the
intellectuality of the individual.
 Individual loss the control over the brain.
 Girls or boys emotionally attach than
he/ she loss the thinking power- crime
patrol
Effect of Situation:
Situation effect or to create the emotion
Erosion or suppression of emotion
depend on situation
oYour fear will be high when you will
see the lion in jungle than in cage

26.  Can be trained:
 After so many experiments psychologist had
prove that emotion can be control by systematic
training
 Individual can control the anger, fear, sex can be
control by training.
 Lion of circus can be train to control the anger.
So lion can remain with other animals.

27. Classification of Emotion
Primary Secondary

28.  Primary Emotions:
 Primary emotions are those that we feel first.
 Eg. If we are threatened, we may have a feeling of fear
 Typical primary emotions are
 fear
 anger
 sadness
 happiness
 Love
 Surprise
The problem sometimes with primary emotions is that they
disappears as fast as they appear
 Eg. Mother anxiety vanishes at the moment she find that
her baby is unhurt

29.  Secondary Emotion:
 Secondary emotion appears after primary
emotions
 Eg. Fear of a threat turn to anger that fuels the body for
a fight reaction

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