Performance psychology: perception, action, cognition, and emotion

This book integrates findings from across domains in performance psychology to focus on core research on what influences peak and non-peak performance. The book explores basic and applied research identifying cognition-action interactions, perception-cognition interactions, emotion-cognition interactions, and perception-action interactions. The book explores performance in sports, music, and the arts both for individuals and teams/groups, looking at the influence of cognition, perception, personality, motivation and drive, attention, stress, coaching, and age. This comprehensive work includes contributions from the US, UK, Canada, Germany, and Australia.

Front Cover; Performance Psychology; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; WHAT IS PERFORMANCE PSYCHOLOGY?; WHAT COMPONENTS OF PERFORMANCE PSYCHOLOGY ARE CONSIDERED?; HOW IS THE BOOK STRUCTURED?; Section A -- What is Performance Psychology?; Overview; 1 -- The Building Blocks of Performance: An Overview; PERCEPTION; ACTION; COGNITION; EMOTION; REFERENCES; 2 -- Theoretical Framework of Performance Psychology: An Action Theory Perspective; DEFINITION AND SCOPE OF PERFORMANCE PSYCHOLOGY; Performance and Psychology; Structure of Performance Orientation; Characteristics of Peak Performance.

The Action Paradigm-A Meta-Theoretical Perspective on PerformanceThe Primacy of Action; Intention-The Organizing Principle of Action; The Action Space and Its Situational Configuration; The Functional Architecture of Actions; System Levels of Action Organization; The Phase Structure of Actions; Functional Systems of Action Control; Functionality of Emotional Processes with Special Reference to Performance; Multifacetedness and Functional Complexity; Functional Disturbances; Options in Emotional Processing; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; 3 -- Measurement Considerations in Performance Psychology.

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