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Review of critical thinking and fighting spirit among athletes.

This paper is written as a conceptual paper where the main purpose is to discuss about the importance of critical thinking and fighting spirit on athlete’s performance. Cognitive approach as one of the famous approaches in psychology concentrates on the important role of mental processes such as pro...

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Main Authors: Sulaiman, Tajularipin, Baki, Roselan, Abdullah, Borhannudin, Garmjani, Maryam Gholampour, Motevalli, Saeid
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Language:English
Published: Center for Promoting Ideas (CPI), USA 2013
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/29015/1/Review%20of%20critical%20thinking%20and%20fighting%20spirit%20among%20athletes.pdf
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spelling my.upm.eprints.290152016-02-02T01:24:09Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/29015/ Review of critical thinking and fighting spirit among athletes. Sulaiman, Tajularipin Baki, Roselan Abdullah, Borhannudin Garmjani, Maryam Gholampour Motevalli, Saeid This paper is written as a conceptual paper where the main purpose is to discuss about the importance of critical thinking and fighting spirit on athlete’s performance. Cognitive approach as one of the famous approaches in psychology concentrates on the important role of mental processes such as processing and remembering new information, developing language, problem solving, and thinking. Moreover, critical thinking specifically emphasises on some cognitive processes which attempt to minimize the influence of preconceptions and biases while rationally assessing evidence and signs, concluding on the base of interpretation of evidences and signs, and concerning alternative explanations. On the other hand, fighting spirit refers to the internal motivation due to enhance the athletes’ performance through the sport competition. The authors explain the definitions of cognitive approach, critical thinking, fighting spirit as internal motivation among athletes, and also a briefly discussion on importance of critical thinking skills among athletes are included in the discussion. Future direction in critical thinking research and fighting spirit among athletes is brought up as well suggestion to psychologists and sport psychologist to embark critical thinking research. Center for Promoting Ideas (CPI), USA 2013-02 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/29015/1/Review%20of%20critical%20thinking%20and%20fighting%20spirit%20among%20athletes.pdf Sulaiman, Tajularipin and Baki, Roselan and Abdullah, Borhannudin and Garmjani, Maryam Gholampour and Motevalli, Saeid (2013) Review of critical thinking and fighting spirit among athletes. International Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 3 (3). pp. 169-177. ISSN 2220-8488; ESSN: 2221-0989 http://www.ijhssnet.com/journal/index/1600
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description This paper is written as a conceptual paper where the main purpose is to discuss about the importance of critical thinking and fighting spirit on athlete’s performance. Cognitive approach as one of the famous approaches in psychology concentrates on the important role of mental processes such as processing and remembering new information, developing language, problem solving, and thinking. Moreover, critical thinking specifically emphasises on some cognitive processes which attempt to minimize the influence of preconceptions and biases while rationally assessing evidence and signs, concluding on the base of interpretation of evidences and signs, and concerning alternative explanations. On the other hand, fighting spirit refers to the internal motivation due to enhance the athletes’ performance through the sport competition. The authors explain the definitions of cognitive approach, critical thinking, fighting spirit as internal motivation among athletes, and also a briefly discussion on importance of critical thinking skills among athletes are included in the discussion. Future direction in critical thinking research and fighting spirit among athletes is brought up as well suggestion to psychologists and sport psychologist to embark critical thinking research.
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author Sulaiman, Tajularipin
Baki, Roselan
Abdullah, Borhannudin
Garmjani, Maryam Gholampour
Motevalli, Saeid
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Baki, Roselan
Abdullah, Borhannudin
Garmjani, Maryam Gholampour
Motevalli, Saeid
Review of critical thinking and fighting spirit among athletes.
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Baki, Roselan
Abdullah, Borhannudin
Garmjani, Maryam Gholampour
Motevalli, Saeid
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title_short Review of critical thinking and fighting spirit among athletes.
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publisher Center for Promoting Ideas (CPI), USA
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