Syllabus

Course Code: MPEd -301    Course Name: Sports Psychology

MODULE NO / UNIT COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE NOTES
1 Introduction of Sports Psychology & Learning
1. Introduction to Sports and Exercise Psychology?
2. Multidimensional components of the field of Sports Psychology.
3. Thorndike’s theory (Connectionism or Trial and Error Learning)
4. Pavlov’s Theory of Classical Conditioning
5. Kohler’s Insight Learning
6. Bandura’s Social Learning Theory
2 Psychological Skills Training and Goal Setting
1. Introduction to Psychological Skills Training (PST) and Types
2. Advantages of PST in Sports
3. Phases of Psychological Skills Training Programmes in games and sports
4. Define Goal Setting and Types of Goals
5. Principles of Goal Setting
3 Motivation and Stress
1. Meaning of Motivation, Basic Motivational concepts Interactional model of Motivation.
2. Strategies for Motivating Athletes and Teams.
3. Theories of achievements Motivation (Atkinson’s theory and Attribution theory)
4. Maslow’s need-hierarchy theory
5. Meaning and Definition of Stress, Causes, Symptom v 6. Effective Strategies of Stress, through Yoga & Meditation
4 Personality and Its Theories
1. Meaning and Structure of Personality
2. Sigmund Freud: Psychoanalytic Theory of Personality
3. Types theories of Personality (Hippocrate’s classification, Kretschmer’s classification, Sheldon’s and Jung)
4. Trait theories of Personality (Allport, Cattell, & Eysenck Personality)
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