Sports Psychology Level 3

Unit 1

What is a sports psychologist?
The role of a sports psychologist
Brief history of sports psychology
An overview of psychology

Unit 2

Personality
Theories on personality
Methods of measuring personality
The links between personality and sport involvement and performance
Personality profiling
Origins of attitude
Triadic model of attitude formation
Changing attitudes
How attitudes influence behaviour
Aggressive behaviour
Antecedents of aggression
Theories of aggression
How aggression affects sporting performance
Combating aggression
 

Unit 3

Emotions
Arousal
Theories of arousal
How arousal affects sporting performance
Anxiety
How anxiety affects sporting performance
Stress
Causes of stress
Measuring stress
Stress management
Physical relaxation
Imagery
Focus

Unit 4

Theories of motivation
How motivation affects sporting performance
Developing a motivational climate
Goal setting
Confidence building

Unit 5

How spectators affect sporting performance
Research on audience effects
Coping with audience effects
The effects of co-action on sporting performance
The home advantage performance
Teams and groups
Factors that effect group performances
Group maturity
Cohesion
Leadership
Leadership characteristics
Leadership qualities
Leadership behaviours
Leadership styles
Theories of leadership

Unit 6

Psychological skills training

A Psychological skills training programme

An orientation phase An analysis phase

A planning phase An implementation phase

An evaluation phase