PSYC*4130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Carl Diem, Tom Bates, Sport Psychology
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Things athletes do to get ready: prayers, focus and control, superstition, visualizations, find something that works for you, rituals in locker room. Tom bates: sport psychologist: pressure seen as privilege vs. a bad thing. Ultimate sliding doors motion-years of practie for minutes of action. Want to eliminate doubt because its catastrophic which is why visualizing success is important. What we think affects how we feel and how we feel affects how we perform. State of mind before performance is more important than skill vs. effort. Performance psychology is an aspect under sports psychology. Late 1800s: research on athletic performance and focused on: competition, reaction time etc. Carl diem: 1st sport psychology lab in berlin. Coleman r. griffith (1893-1966): 1st american sports psychologist: coleman r. griffith (1893-1966, wrote 1925 paper psychology and its relations to athletic competition , was a scientist (teaching/research) and practitioner (applied knowledge): worked.
