MOOC Introductory Video on Psychology with Special Reference to Physical Education

This course is designed to give students an overview of Psychology with Special Reference to Physical Education. Psychology with Special Reference to Physical Education is basically that branch of psychology in which the findings of psychology are applied in the field of physical education. It is the scientific study of human behavior in educational setting. In short, it is the scientific discipline that addresses the questions: What are emotions? Why do some students learn more than others? What is relationship between body and mind? What are the innate abilities and capacities of the individual? Etc. Like the sociologist, anthropologist, economist or political scientist, the physical education psychologist studies human beings and their sociability. The subject-matter of Physical Education with special reference to psychology is knitted around the learner. Therefore, the need of knowing the learner and the techniques of knowing him well is very much essential. The topics include – Emotion - meaning and their psychological change and sub limitations, instinct definition, characteristics and their training. Motivation, kinds of motivation, and its Importance. Relationship between body and mind. Learning-meaning, and nature of learning, laws of learning and learning curve, transfer of training, kinds of transfer in various sports situation with special reference to adolescence. The innate abilities and capacities of the individuals, individual differences and their measurements, the overt, covert, conscious as well as unconscious behavior of the learner, the characteristics of his growth and development at each stage beginning from childhood to adulthood. To what extent Heredity and Environment contribute towards the growth of the individual, and how this knowledge can be made use of for bringing about the optimum development of the child; form a salient feature of the scope of physical education with reference to psychology.