PSYC 2660 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Sport Psychology
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Choosing target behaviours and devising ways to monitor them: when speciically describing behaviour, there are 6 objecive dimensions or characterisics to consider. Quality: something all sports have and get judged upon, something that all the 6 characterisics above have, by being speciic in idenifying target behaviours, you: Help to ensure the reliability of detecing improvements in the behaviour. Increase the likelihood that your treatment program will be applied consistently: target behaviours are typically monitored by one of the following strategies. Target behaviour of an athlete that is monitored by a single observer. A checklist that is made for observers to observe muliple behaviours of an individual. An athlete that monitors himself/herself so track the behaviour of interest. Using videos to examine the strengths and weaknesses of athletes for improvement purposes or their opponents to igure out their weaknesses lomoarcpsd| 987298. Although less common, it is a useful way to monitor target behaviours and provide permanent evidence of an observed behaviour.