psychological skills

For whatever reason, the physical and psychological skills required to win big in golf take longer to develop fully than tennis.

She has used the results to produce composites of the ideal psychological skills required by various sports.

Requirements analysis can be a long and arduous process during which many delicate psychological skills are involved.

The Knicks did not practice yesterday, but when they return to the floor today, Riley might need all of his psychological skills.

The goal of applied practice is to optimize performance and enjoyment through the use of psychological skills.

'Very good, Alex. Have you ever thought of applying your psychological skills to marketing?'

They have, using samples of athletes, shown a link between toughness, coping, emotional reactivity, psychological skills and performance.

Psychological skills in general including assertiveness and social skills have been posed as intervention for a variety of disorders with some empirical support.

Now there was a new breed of criminal analyst, officers trained in an impressive mixture of psychological skills and computer navigation.

And as a sport psychologist, Higdon works with professional and collegiate athletes to enhance performance through the use of psychological skills training.

The term people skills is used to include both psychological skills and social skills, but is less inclusive than life skills.

The ability to bombard the unconscious mind with one single positive phrase, is one of the most effective and easy to use psychological skills available to any athlete.

And in recent years researchers have found that some of the same psychological skills that help many people avoid mental distress can also put them at heightened risk for prolonging covert activities.

But because he still sees himself as work in progress with a growing command of the psychological skills that produce winning golf, there will be nothing novel in his approach at La Costa.

In addition to instruction and training of psychological skills for performance improvement, applied sport psychology may include work with athletes, coaches, and parents regarding injury, rehabilitation, communication, team building, and career transitions.

Every two years, O'Dowd said, the best 25 prospects are brought to Denver in the winter to stay with local families and take seminars about the social and psychological skills they will need to cope.

Educational sport psychologists emphasize the use of psychological skills training (e.g., goal setting, imagery, energy management, self-talk) when working with clients by educating and instructing them on how to use these skills effectively during performance situations.

Perhaps the most formidable challenge for the new Transportation Security Administration, the experts say, will be identifying 28,000 people with the right mix of psychological skills to stay focused, bag after mind-numbing bag, for that rare moment when a weapon rolls by.

It is a belief that student athletes comprise one of the most diverse groups of people on our college campuses today, particularly with regard to factors such as personal history, academic preparedness, life goals and expectations, physical and psychological skills, and developmental readiness.

In an interview in New Scientist in 2005, when asked how he "acquired his psychological skills", Brown says that he learned skills as a hypnotist, which he wasn't sure how to apply until he started performing close-up magic.

The word gained wider recognition as a result of its use in the title of Rosheim's subsequent book Robot Evolution: The Development of Anthrobotics, which focussed on facsimiles of human physical and psychological skills and attributes.

After gaining fake identities for the team, she led them away from S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Lightning Rods, and she managed to defeat Graviton using her psychological skills, making him see that he did not truly have a goal, that he lacked vision.

Sports and music may seem worlds apart, but mastery in both requires similar psychological skills, says Mr. Greene, who holds a master's degree in forensic science from George Washington University in Washington and a doctorate in psychology from United States International University in San Diego.