Performance Psychology

Performance Psychology provides a comprehensive understanding of the psychological skills and knowledge necessary to facilitate and develop peak performance guidelines into best practice for sport, business, fitness and the performing arts.

Learning outcomes

• Demonstrate an understanding of the basic psychological skills underlying peak performance.
• Identify the significance of self-confidence factors promoting improved performance.
• Identify the effects of situational and personal motivation on performance.
• Identify the conceptual issues surrounding arousal and activation during performance.
• Identify the effects of stress and anxiety on performance.
• Demonstrate the variety of concentration and attention control skills promoting improved performance.
• Experience, through practice, an integrated model for coping with injury.
• Demonstrate the importance of anticipation, promoting improved performance.
• Learn effective methods for handling mistakes.
• Implement guidelines for effective mental training techniques.
• Maintain fundamental skills and strategies leading to peak performance.

Content areas

• Overview of peak performance.
• Key factors of basic psychological skills training.
• Self confidence factors leading to improved performance.
• Motivational factors of performance.
• Arousal and activity issues.
• Stress and anxiety.
• Concentration and attention control.
• Coping with injury.
• Anticipation.
• Handling mistakes.
• Performance enhancement through mental training.
• Case studies.

This module is available on campus, by distance education or online.