Psychology and Soccer

It has long been recognized that the physical elements are not enough athletes to excel in their fields. One of the most recent being applied to performance in sports is called cognitive psychology - the study of human brain mechanisms of mental processes related to how we see things, feel things, the resolution problems and the probable cause our behavior.

This document contains a detailed plan ten hours of football training and the relationship of cognitive psychology for athletes' over-performance on the model of information processing Whiting, Welford, and Schmidt. The contribution of psychology cognitive players to improve the understanding and performance, the application of different theoretical approaches to various sports situations and use of theory to improve individual performance and teamwork, especially in football, will be considered.

There are a range of sub-concepts of cognitive psychology that processing of information. This highlights the process by which our brain to take information from the outside world by our senses, to choose and use the information that led to a decision to exit from the behavior exhibited or actions, which is the subject of the environment.

The decision to launch the ball or the goal is defined by the availability of a player in a favorable location and the number of players to control it (input). The success or failure of its movements (output) on the basis of his decision was confirmed by a landing or a pass respectively (feedback). Now, the processes involved in this split-second scenario is a simulation of plays where the player was trained, not born. With the constant exposure to similar situations in the context of training, skills are inherent in a player of the spirit in which he was able to apply naturally in the game, despite the atmosphere ...