Ch 9Psychology and Sports — Class 11 Physical Education, concept-first.

Why do two athletes of almost equal skill often perform so differently under pressure? Why does a talented team sometimes lose to a weaker one, and why does the same player look unstoppable one week a…

Before we can use psychology in sport, we need to be clear about what the subject actually is and why it matters on the field.

To understand sports psychology we first need the two words it is built from. The term sport can be described as physical activity carried out for recreation, health, competition and education.

Once we know what sports psychology is, the next question for CBSE Class 11 Physical Education is a practical one: where is it actually used? Many strategies and procedures are used to deal with the p…

Why does the CBSE Class 11 Physical Education course give psychology its own unit? Because psychology matters for everyone who exercises or plays — not only for elite athletes.

A ten-year-old, a sixteen-year-old and a forty-year-old do not learn, move, think or feel in the same way.

To understand how an individual grows and develops, it helps to look at the four main areas of development.

Change is the one certainty of life. It may be visible, as in physical change (gaining height or weight, changes in muscle and fat), or less visible, as in cognitive, emotional, social and moral chang…

Adolescence, as defined by the World Health Organization (WHO), covers individuals aged 10-19 years — a period of transition from childhood to adulthood marked by the onset of puberty (which now, on a…

As a topic in social psychology, team cohesion is one of the most important factors for raising a team's performance and the satisfaction of its members.

Some qualities of an athlete are not physical at all, yet they decide who copes with pressure and who crumbles.

Attention and the ideas around it are very common in sport, and athletes rightly treat it as important for performance.

Mental toughness is a multifaceted construct made up of several key components — values, attitudes, cognitions, emotions and behaviours — that together refer to a person's ability to thrive through bo…

Life's challenges never really end, and the ability to cope with and recover from them — the spoken and unspoken encounters of life — is known as resilience.