Sports Psychology final exam

Sports Psychology final exam

1.       Choose a psychology experiment that has made a significant impact on the world of psychology. (everyone needs to choose a unique experiment, check with Rhone to make sure there aren’t duplicates)

2.       Create a google document and title it the name of the experiment you chose 

LIST OF EXPERIMENTS

3.       Research the details of this experiment by:

a.       Reading 2 separate internet sources about it : Link to both readings on your google doc and summarize each with a quick sentence or two

b.      Watch 2 YouTube videos with more than 5 minutes in length: link to both videos and summarize them in a quick sentence or two

4.       Draft a piece of writing that responds to the following prompts:

a.       Describe the details of the experiment- What happened exactly?

b.      Who conducted the experiment? Is this psychologist important to the study of psychology? What perspective do they follow? Tell me anything relevant about them

c.       What are the outcomes of the experiment?

d.      What did we learn about human nature from the experiments?

e.      Is there any critique of the experiment, its outcome, the way the experimenter acted?

Create a poster with the following tiles:

Summary of the experiment	TITLE	Outcomes:  What were the specific results of the experiment?
Who conducted the experiment? Give some relevant information about the person.	Relevant Image of experiment	Critiques: What kind of critique has been put against this experiment?
Insights: what did we learn about human nature or ourselves from this experiment?	Other important information you have come across.	What perspective of psychology is this experiment connected too? Define the perspective and explain anything relevant.

On the day of our final exam you will present your poster and read you written document aloud to present your research on the experiment you worked on. 

Seniors: June 8^th/ Underclassmen: June 14^th

^{POINT BREAKDOWN:}

Google doc	10 points	2 article summaries and links 2 video summaries and links
Writing	40 points	Complete and thoughtful responses to all 5 questions. At least 2 pages in length.
Poster	40 points	Clear and accurate information Creative and interesting art
Presentation	10 points	Engaged and articulate. Clearly prepared and shares information well.

STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS

We are going to start class with this:

TED TALK ABOUT SLEEPING

Then on your own, you should watch these clips:

SHAQ on sleep apnea 

Diagnosing narcolepsy 

Then read this article:

5 common sleep disorders

Then read this article:

Dangerous dreamers

On some lined paper I want you to write a response to these questions about each of the sources above:

1- what was the most interesting thing I learned form this source?
2- What is one question that this source made me think about?

Mental illness of professional athletes

Below is a list of Athletes who have suffered a mental illness of some kind. Your job today, is to research the person and the disorder. You will work with your partner from our previous activity. (The names are on the board) Choose 2 athletes from the list below and then create a one pager for both. Please crate them digitally and then share or email your completed documents to: 

robert.rhone85@gmail.com 

I want a one page document with the following:

1. Title
2. Image of the person
3. Disorder they suffered from
4. The major symptoms of the disorder
5. Common causes of the disorder
6. Types of therapy to treat the condition
7. How did it impact their athletic performance? If at all.
8. How public is their disorder? Do they talk about it in public and try to raise awareness, or do they shelter it from the public? Explain
9. Any additional information that will help us understand the disorder or the athlete. 

Terry Bradshaw, sports commentator and former quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers, admitted to dealing with anxiety attacks and depression.

Shelley Beattie, former bodybuilder, dealt with bipolar disorder during her life.

Willie Burton, former professional basketball player, reportedly has unipolar depression.

Barret Robbins, former Oakland Raider, received five years of probation and ordered to be treated for bipolar disorder in relation to charges in 2005.

John Daly, professional golfer on the PGA Tour, has battled alcoholism, gambling problems, and reportedly bipolar disorder.

Paolo Di Canio, retired Italian football player, reportedly has unipolar depression.

Ricky Williams, Miami dolphins running back and Heisman trophy winner, was diagnosed with social anxiety disorder.

Ilie Nastase, former professional Romanian tennis player, reportedly has bipolar disorder.

Scott Donie, former American diver and Olympic medalist and current Head Diving Coach at New York University, reportedly has unipolar depression.

Wendy Williams, former U.S. Olympic diver, was diagnosed with major depression in 1994, after a spinal injury that forced her to retire.

Paul Gascoigne, retired English football player, reportedly has unipolar depression.

Jimmie Piersall, sports broadcaster and former MLB player, has bipolar disorder and is the subject of the movie Fear Strikes Out, which is based on his autobiography Fear Strikes Out: The Jim Piersall Story.

Dwight Gooden (aka Doc Gooden and Dr. K), former MLB player, reportedly has unipolar depression.

Julie Krone, the first female jockey to win a Triple Crown race and the first female jockey inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame, reportedly has unipolar depression.

Earl Campbell, former football pro and current founder and president of Earl Campbell Meat Products, Inc., manages panic disorder and documented his life with panic disorder in The Earl Campbell Story: A Football Great’s Battle With Panic Disorder.

Greg Louganis, a Greek American diver who won back-to-back Olympic titles, reportedly has unipolar depression.

Alonzo Spellman, former NFL defensive lineman for the Chicago Bears, the Dallas Cowboys, and the Detroit Lions, has bipolar disorder.

John Madden, former NFL player, former Oakland Raiders head coach, football video game magnate, and a top broadcast analysts for NFL games, suffers from a fear of flying (also referred to as aerophobia, aviatophobia, aviophobia, and pteromerhanophobia). He once suffered a panic attack in a plane, and states that his fear of flying actually deals with claustrophobia rather than an actual fear of flying or heights.

Monica Seles, former World No. 1 professional tennis player, reportedly has unipolar depression.

Muffin Spencer-Devlin, former professional golfer on the LPGA Tour, reportedly has bipolar disorder.

Pat LaFontaine, formerly of the National Hockey League (New York Islanders, Buffalo Sabres, and New York Rangers, has battled depression.

Darryl Strawberry, former baseball player for the New York Mets and the New York Yankees, reportedly has bipolar disorder.

Kendall Gill, former NBA player for an array of teams such as the Charlotte Hornets, the Seattle SuperSonics, and the Chicago Bulls, was diagnosed with clinical depression.

Luther Wright, former basketball player with the Utah Jazz, retired from the game after being diagnosed with bipolar disorder.

Pete Harnisch, former pitcher for MLB, has struggled with depression.

Oksana Baiul, Ukrainian professional figure skater and the 1994 Olympic Champion, reportedly has unipolar depression.

Source of the list here:
Read more: http://www.blisstree.com/2008/06/12/mental-health-well-being/athletes-and-mental-illness-234/#ixzz4YrTtLth8

MENTAL TRAINING PRESENTATIONS

Everything that should be included in your presentations:

1. What is Mental toughness and how can we improve it? (lean on the article links below)
2. How can this help? Do some research (Links below?)
3. All the details about the 10-MT toughness training protocol this includes
1. Each step-the breath
2. performance statement
3. personal highlight reel
4. identity statement
5. breath
4. Figure out a plan for working through these steps with the team you plan on presenting too. Create some kind of physical handout that athletes can complete to help them create a 10 minute toughness plan. 

YOUTUBE VIDEO FROM CLASS TODAY

LINK TO THE TEXT

Use the links below to find new ideas about getting mentally tough:

5 Powerful Exercises To Increase Your Mental Strength

The Science of Developing Mental Toughness in Your Health,Work, and Life

18 Powerful Ways to Build Your Mental Toughness

3 Tips to Build Mental Toughness

Improve Your Mental Toughness in 2 Minutes

5 Powerful Exercises to Increase Your Mental Strength

HOW I WILL DECIDE YOUR GRADE:

50%- digital presentation (power point or google slides)

          Did you include all relevant information, is it creative, high quality, and do you clearly have a plan?

50% student handout that you create to help athletes be guided through your presentation.

DUE @ the end of class, September 19th 

Update for the end of year work

By today, each of you should have the 17 social psych questions completed. Make sure I have them either in hand or in my email box before the end of our class on Tuesday May 31.

Also, you should organize the information about one of the questions along with some interesting graphics to create a poster by the end of this block. After this, you should move on to the social psychology newspaper project. This project is detailed in a previous blog post, so scroll down for the specifics.

End of the Year Assignments

End of the Year Assignments for Sports Psychology:

1. Your task is to find comprehensive answers to the following questions about Social psychology. You can use the internet or either of our textbook options to find your answers. To be complete, your response needs to be in a complete sentence, completely answer the question, and be accurate. You can complete digital or handwritten.

2. Your secondary task is to create a poster that will present the information in the question that you find most interesting. This poster should include the question being answered, an engaging graphic, and relevant information that answers the question. You can complete digital or handwritten.

3. Next you should move onto the newspaper project. Refer to the previous blog post for more specific instructions and details for the newspaper project.

Social Psychology Over view questions:1.     What do social psychologists study? How do we tend to explain others’ behavior and our own?
2.     Does what we think affect what we do, or does what we do affect what we think?
3.     What is automatic mimicry, and how do conformity experiments reveal the power of social influence?
4.     What did Milgram’s obedience experiments teach us about the power of social influence?
5.     How is our behavior affected by the presence of others?
6.     What are group polarization and groupthink, and how much power do we have as individuals?
7.     How do cultural norms affect our behavior?
8.     What is prejudice? What are its social and emotional roots?
9.     What are the cognitive roots of prejudice?
10.            How does psychology’s definition of aggression differ from everyday usage? What biological factors make us more prone to hurt one another?
11.            What psychological and social-cultural factors may trigger aggressive behavior?
12.            Why do we befriend or fall in love with some people but not others?
13.            How does romantic love typically change as time passes?
14.            When are people most—and least—likely to help?
15.            How do social exchange theory and social norms explain helping behavior?
16.            How do social traps and mirror-image perceptions fuel social conflict?
17.            How can we transform feelings of prejudice, aggression, and conflict into attitudes that promote peace?

Point values	Assignments that will be graded before the end of marking period 4 in Modern World history.	Complete?
20 points	Effort on Social psych questions
45 points	Completion of Social psych questions
20 points	Effort on Social Psychology newspaper project
45 Points	Completion of Social psych newspaper project
10  points	Exam review (Response to review questions and complete index card for exam time.

 

Before we finish the year with one last project and preperation