Kinesiology 3388A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Dependent And Independent Variables, Goal Setting, The Control Group
10 Apr 2018
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Defining goals: a goal is a target or objective that people strive to attain. Objective goals: very specific and have a timeline. I want to do better than last time. Set desirable objectives: goal setting is the pra(cid:272)ti(cid:272)e of esta(cid:271)lishi(cid:374)g desira(cid:271)le o(cid:271)je(cid:272)ti(cid:448)es for o(cid:374)e"s a(cid:272)tio(cid:374)s. With self-talk, avoid talking about the future; day of competition, avoid thinking about the outcome goal. Filby et al. (1999: objective: to compare the effect of four different goal-setting strategies and a control group on soccer performance, participants: 40 (23m, 17f) kin students, dependent variable: performance on wall volley test. Independent variable: goal condition: for step 4, some individuals refer back to their process based goals and others just outcome goals. The control group increased in performance not engaging in any goal setting, and everyone came in for training and therefore the results are due to practice. Outcome goal group: they saw the smallest improvement in performance.
