KINES 321 Study Guide - Spring 2019, Comprehensive Final Exam Notes - Anxiety, Weight Loss, Verbal (Rapper)
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No more 10 min rule if you can"t get all 150 min do what you can. Don"t give up: some activity is better than none**, talk test, moving and can talk moderate, moving and can"t talk vigorous. Sport and exercise psychology: the scientific study of people and their behaviors in sport and exercise activities and the practical application of that knowledge, abc"s affect, behavior, cognition. Goals of science: observing, describing, explaining, predicating, controlling (maintaining) Theory: a set of interrelated facts presenting systematic view of some phenomenon in order to describe explain and predict its future occurrences. Study: the investigator observes or assesses without changing the environment in any way. Experiment: the investigator manipulates variables while observing them, then examines how changes in one or more variables affect changes in others. ***note: the advantage of an experiment is that researchers are better able to determine casual (or cause and effect) relationships.
