KINE 3000 Study Guide - Final Guide: Absenteeism, Participant Observation, Bone Density

• School: York University
• Department: Kinesiology & Health Science
• Course: KINE 3000
• Professor: Joseph Baker

Document Summary

Lecture 1: introduction to psychology of health and physical activity. Methods of knowing: scientific method, systematic observation, case study, shared public experience, introspection (examining your thoughts or feelings, intuition (immediate apprehension of knowledge in absence of a conscious rational process) Nonscientific methods of knowing: tenacity: clinging to beliefs such as superstitions, intuition: commonsense or self-evident truths, authority: accepting the authority"s truth, rationalistic method: logic. Scientific method: developing the problem, formulating the hypothesis, gathering the data, analyzing and interpreting results, developing the problem. Dependent variable: the variable that is affected by the independent variable. Hypothesis: the expected result or prediction e. g. we expect the younger adolescent athletes will require more extrinsic motivation than older adolescent athletes. Hypothesis must be testable : gathering the data. Internal validity: the extent to which results of an investigation can be attributed to the treatment utilized. External validity: the extent to which results can be generalized within the real world: analyzing and interpreting results.