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 behaviour 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 the 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 to know the learner and the techniques of knowing him well is essential.

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; forms a salient feature of the scope of physical education with reference to psychology.

The following are the main objectives of the course:

• learn the human behaviour with special reference to Physical Education.

• Understand the Relationship between body and mind.

• Reveal to what extent heredity and environment contribute towards the growth of the individual.

• To inscribe the individual differences of the learners.