PSICOLOGIA GENERALE E DELLO SPORT
Academic Year 2025/2026 - Teacher: MARIANO INDELICATOExpected Learning Outcomes
Course Structure
Required Prerequisites
Attendance of Lessons
bindingDetailed Course Content
History of Psychology
Scientific foundations of sport psychology
Neurophysiological bases of motor behavior
Perception, action and motor imagination
Self-regulating processes and activation levels
Attentional processes
Learning and memory
Executive functions and excellence in sport
Emotions and sports
Motivation and Personality
Sport and personality
Group dynamics
Improve performance
Sport, physical activity and well-being
Textbook Information
Mandolesi, L., Manuale di psicologia generale e dello sport, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2022
Indelicato, M., Dal dono ai legami generazionali, Clinica dell'anima familiare, Aracne editrice
Flavio Nascimbene, Psicologia dello sport, nuove frontiere relazionali con l’atleta della generazione Z
Daniela Tortorelli, Prepararsi al via, Psicologia dello sport sistemico relazionale, Franco Angeli
| Author | Title | Publisher | Year | ISBN |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mandolesi, l. | Manuale di psicologia generale e dello sport | Il Mulino | 2022 | |
| Indelicato, M. | Dal dono ai legami generazionali. clinica dell'anima familiare | Aracne editrice | 2023 | |
| Nascimbene F. | Psicologia dello sport, nuove frontiere relazionali con l’atleta della generazione Z | Pensiero e Vita | 2024 | |
| Tortorelli D. | Prepararsi al via, Psicologia dello sport sistemico relazionale | Franco Angeli | 2016 |
Learning Assessment
Learning Assessment Procedures
For the evaluation, the teacher will take into account the following:
Knowledge and understanding: Knowledge of general psychology and sports psychology fundamentals, particularly cognitive, emotional and motivational domains.
Applied knowledge and understanding: Acquisition of knowledge of general and sports psychology mechanisms and possible alterations.
You are making judgements: Ability to summarize and compare general and sports psychology (e.g. attention, memory, executive functions) in sport.
Communication skills: Ability to communicate the contents learned during the course with a personal style and appropriate terminology.
Ability to learn: Understanding, analyzing and processing the contents of general and sports psychology texts to undertake subsequent in-depth studies independently
The following parameters will be taken into account for the vote:
Score 29-30 cum laude: the student has an in-depth knowledge of the required topics, is able to promptly and correctly integrate and critically analyze the situations presented, independently solving even highly complex problems; He has excellent communication skills and masters medical-scientific language.
Score 26-28: the student has a good knowledge of the required topics, is able to integrate and analyze the situations presented in a critical and linear way, is able to solve complex problems quite autonomously and explains the topics clearly using appropriate medical-scientific language.
Score 22-25: the student has a fair knowledge of the required topics, even if limited to the main topics; he is able to integrate and analyze the situations presented in a critical but not always linear way and exposes the topics quite clearly with a good command of language.
Score 18-21: the student has minimal knowledge of the required topics, has a modest ability to integrate and critically analyze the situations presented and presents the topics in a sufficiently clear way although the language skills are poorly developed.
Exam not passed: the student does not have the minimum required knowledge of the main contents of the course. The ability to use specific language is very poor or non-existent and he is not able to apply the acquired knowledge independently
Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises
What is sports psychology?
What is meant by the scientific method?
The difference between movement, motor act and action
What does open-loop motor behavior mean?