Kinesiology 3474A/B Lecture 5: Expertise & Weaknesses
30 Apr 2018
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Kinesiology 3474 - Psychology of Interventions (Midterm)
Lecture 5
Chapter 3 - Expertise and Psychological Interventions
- Many people strive to be the very best in a given activity, but few actually becomes
experts
- In most physical activity contexts three general components come into play
- If you have a weakness in one of these components your likelihood of being successful is
greatly diminished; experts tend to have few, if any weaknesses
- Knowledge of the mechanisms underpinning expertise provides a foundation for
determining what types of practice are most likely to be beneficial for performance
improvement, and why some people improve or reach achievement at different rates
compared to others or reach much higher levels of achievement (Ericsson, 2006)
- This knowledge is relevant when designing appropriate training interventions, including
psychological interventions (Williams & Reilly, 2000)
- Expertise has been studied in a variety of domains including music, chess, education,
physics, mathematics and business; with respect to physical activity domains, most of
the expertise research has considered sport; some of the sports in which expertise have
been investigated include field hockey, figure skating, soccer and wrestling
- It has been argued that real expertise must pass three tests:
1) It ust produe perforae that is osistetl superior to that of the epert’s
peers ust e etter tha other people doig hateer it is that ou’re doig
2) Real expertise leads to concrete results (sometimes it is objective (how far can you
throw discus) or subjective (diving?)
3) True expertise can be replicated and measured
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