PSYC 3480 Chapter 3: PSYC*3480 TEXT ch 3

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3480
• Professor: Dan Yarmey

Document Summary

Focuses on conditioning and listening to the environment. Behaviourism founders, like watson and skinner, said learning from the environment, not the personality or free will determined people"s actions. Athlete associates behaviours with consequences that are learned through environment or punishment. Positive reinforcement involves any factor that increases behaviour. Negative reinforcement involves removing any factor to increase behaviour. If through watching others exercise we see changes in their energy or appearance we may be more likely to exercise. As long as the change we see is valued by us. Self-monitoring, effective for developing and maintaining skills. Self monitoring involves recording your own behaviour in specific situations. Emphasized the role of thought patterns and cognitive habits as determinants of behaviour. Individual viewed as an active participant such that it is their interpretation of external environment that exerts influence on behaviour. Automatic thought process, cognitive errors, and core beliefs, can be altered with continued persistence.