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Table of content

• Chapter 1 - What are the basics of sport psychology?
• Chapter 2 - What is the relationship between motivation and goals-setting in sport?
• Chapter 3 - How do psyching up, calming down and anxiety relate to sport?
• Chapter 4 - Hoe verloopt de herkenning van objecten?
• Chapter 5 - How do athletes stay focused and concentrated?
• Chapter 6 - How do athletes use imagination in sport, like mental imagery, motor imagery and mental practice?
• Chapter 7 - What makes someone an expert athlete?
• Chapter 8 - How does one research team cohesion in sport?
• Chapter 9 - What do embodied cognition and cultural sport psychology entail?

Chapter 1 - Economics of sport

Professional sports can be viewed as an economic process. Factors of production (input) as labor (manager/coach and athletes) are combined with capital (sporting field, equipment) to produce, along with another team in the league, a product (the fixture) that is sold to