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School: Medical and Health Sciences

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Psychology of Sport and Exercise

  • Unit Code

    SPS3101

  • Year

    2018

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Barbara Michelle HOWARD

Description

This unit provides the opportunity to gain an understanding of the principles and application of sport and exercise psychology. It will assist students in enhancing the peak performance and coping strategies of athletes. The knowledge gained will also be applied to the promotion of exercise adherence to the wider population.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded HMS3125

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse the development, role and significance of psychology as applied to the sporting environment.
  2. Apply the major psychological theories studied to the practical situations in the sporting environment.
  3. Explain the major psychological factors that influence the athlete and coach in sport and fitness.
  4. Understand the major developments in the history of sport and exercise psychology.

Unit Content

  1. Psychological skills training for sport and exercise.
  2. Regulation of concentration, imagery, goal setting, self-confidence, motivation, arousal, anxiety and stress.
  3. Athlete's burnout, overtraining and psychology of athletic injuries.
  4. Personality characteristics of the elite athlete.
  5. Relative age effects in sport.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 213 x 1 hour labNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 213 x 2 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 20 x 1 hour tutorialNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures and laboratory.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
PresentationLaboratory30%
TestMid semester examination35%
ExaminationEnd of semester examination35%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Medical and Health Sciences

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Psychology of Sport and Exercise

  • Unit Code

    SPS3101

  • Year

    2018

  • Enrolment Period

    2

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Barbara Michelle HOWARD

Description

This unit provides the opportunity to gain an understanding of the principles and application of sport and exercise psychology. It will assist students in enhancing the peak performance and coping strategies of athletes. The knowledge gained will also be applied to the promotion of exercise adherence to the wider population.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded HMS3125

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse the development, role and significance of psychology as applied to the sporting environment.
  2. Apply the major psychological theories studied to the practical situations in the sporting environment.
  3. Explain the major psychological factors that influence the athlete and coach in sport and fitness.
  4. Understand the major developments in the history of sport and exercise psychology.

Unit Content

  1. Psychological skills training for sport and exercise.
  2. Regulation of concentration, imagery, goal setting, self-confidence, motivation, arousal, anxiety and stress.
  3. Athlete's burnout, overtraining and psychology of athletic injuries.
  4. Personality characteristics of the elite athlete.
  5. Relative age effects in sport.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 213 x 1 hour labNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 213 x 2 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 20 x 1 hour tutorialNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures and laboratory.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
PresentationLaboratory30%
TestMid semester examination35%
ExaminationEnd of semester examination35%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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