Riley
Lindsey
11-4-14
English
102
Introduction- Do athletes that use
sports psychology or a sports psychologist perform better than those who don’t
use them?
Sports psychology helps athletes
focus on the task at hand and not the final outcome. It helps determine where
in the mind that the athlete could chock at. And it’s getting inside their head
and making them confident so they don’t and that’s their job. The two main
things that athletes struggle wit are, what they're focusing on, and how
they're feeling. "Negative thoughts, irrelevant thoughts,
outcome-related thoughts, tend to produce higher levels of tension and poor
performance," Wrisberg said. "What we try to do is to break down
performance into the things that they have control of and be sure that that's
what they're doing every single time they attempt their sport."
So when an athlete is at the free
throw line, they teach them mentally to breath and focus on the target. And
trust their practice, and don’t think that this point will affect the outcome
of the game. "It's taking care of the stuff you have control of that is
going to give you the chance to be successful, and I think they learn that
principle when they get together with a performance consultant."
Review of literature-
All of the sites above are
about sports psychology, and have information that I will be using in my paper.
All the information that I have will be very useful to my paper. There
are some sites that have information such as, describing sports psychology and
how it was invented. How it helps athletes become better and give them that
extra edge to out think another player. Players might have the same talent
level but in the end it comes down to who is more mentally strong and wants to win
more. There are other sites that describe what the players will be going threw
in the treatment and how the psychologist goes about talking to the players.
There are sites that talk about all the different testing to see if it really
works and then there are the people that think sports psychology is a joke and
does not work at all in sports its only talent, that makes a player better then
other. But im here to prove that wrong that mentally strong athletes are
better.
Plan to collect information
I have been getting a great deal of
my information threw web sites about sports psychology, such as cites that
explain what the basic definition is and also threw ProQuest. I plan on
getting a lot more of my information threw books that I will check out for the
library. Also other sports articles and interviews about other athletes. I will
be reading as much as possible about Sports psychology and getting a better
understanding of all the qualities that involve the topic. I also plan on
talking to coaches that use sports psychology in there coaching on an everyday
basic. The resin this topic is so interning to me is one of my coaches coached
me using different kinds of coaching methods and reading about everything
now this is the exact way he would talk to his players and he didn’t only count
on the talent of each player but, how the player played the game mentally.
Project time line
My time line, I have never really
made a time line before but from where I am right now, I need to finish up the
last 2 in class work sheets. From there I need to start putting all my
information in to a pile and start branching off in to things I need to do. I’m
just a little behind at the moment but I plan on visiting the library and
checking out some books that involve my topic and start reading and
understanding it more. I plan to meet with my old baseball coach and talk to
him about his coaching style and how the mental aspect of sports is just as
important as the physical. I plan on writing up all the information that I
gather for him. And try to plan how to put the information in to my paper and
where it fits best. I plan to lay out all my research and get it in to piles of
completed and not completed. I need to get my annotated bibliography completed
because I keep changing my mind on different information that I think I will
need but, end up not needing and information That I need and that is very
valuable to my paper. By the end of next week I play on being total caught up
with everything. I plan on speaking with my teacher to make sure that I am
doing everything correct. I am excited with the process of my paper and I enjoy
learning more about a topic that interests me.
Works cited
Goldstein, Jay D., and
Seppo Iso-Ahola. "Promoting Sportsmanship in Youth Sports: Perspectives
from Sport Psychology." Journal of Physical Education, Recreation &
Dance 77.7 (2006): 18-24. ProQuest. Web. 23 Oct. 2014.
Kelley, Thomas M.
"POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY AND ADOLESCENT MENTAL HEALTH: FALSE PROMISE OR TRUE
BREAKTHROUGH?" Adolescence 39.154 (2004): 257-78. ProQuest. Web.
23 Oct. 2014
Nelson, Janet. "ON
YOUR OWN; Sports Psychology Becoming the Locker Room's Latest Rage." New
York Times, Late Edition (East Coast) ed.Sep 11 1989. ProQuest. Web.
23 Oct. 2014 .
Goldstein, Jay D., and
Seppo Iso-Ahola. "Promoting Sportsmanship in Youth Sports: Perspectives
from Sport Psychology." Journal of Physical Education, Recreation &
Dance 77.7 (2006): 18-24. ProQuest. Web. 23 Oct. 2014.
Conviser, Jenny H.
"Sports Psychology in Performance." The Booklist (1998): 29. ProQuest.
Web. 23 Oct. 2014.
Reel, James. "How
to use Sports Psychology to Develop a Performance Plan." Strings 04
2010: 31-2. ProQuest. Web. 23 Oct. 2014 .
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