Kinesiology 1088A/B Midterm: Kin-lectures up to midterm.doc

• School: Western University
• Department: Kinesiology
• Course: Kinesiology 1088A/B
• Professor: Robert La Rose

Document Summary

Objectives of sport and exercise psychology: consider how psychological factors effect an individuals physical performance in. September 7, 2012 sport and exercise being: consider how participation effects psychological development, health, and well. Comprehensive objective: to obtain an understanding (through description, explanation and prediction) of behaviour and performance of individual or groups. Behaviour: a unique way of responding to all stimuli. Performance: a goal directed behaviour for the purpose of short term execution of a task. Orientations to sport and exercise psychology: behavioural: behaviour of athletes determined by the environment, psychophysiological: study impact of physiological responses to activity on behaviour, cognitive-behavioural: behaviour determined by one"s interpretation of both environment and cognitions (thoughts). Sport psychologist can deal with heavier subjects, they have a medical degree (depression, eating disorders) Kolb"s learning cycle: concrete experience (ce) (actual feeling of doing something, reflective observation (ro) (watching what happened, abstract conceptualization (ac) (making sense of it thinking, active experiment (ae) (try out something else doing)