KINESIOL 3H03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6-7: Cognitive Restructuring, New Media, Goal Setting
17 Sep 2016
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Exercise psychology chapter 7 notes: personality and exercise. Exercise psych looks at antecedents (personality) and consequences of participation in pa. Personality is the underling, relatively stable psychological structures and processes that shape a person"s actions and reactions to the environment, organize human experience: personality core. Most resistant to change: typical responses. Fairly predictable behaviors and reactions to environment: role-related behaviours. Most easily changed and most influenced by environment. Most prominently with learning/situational or dispositional/trait approach: l/s focuses on environment while d/t focuses on environment, both are interactionist perspectives which views the environment and and individual as important. Constitutional theory says individuals possess certain body or somatotypes which are genetically determined and predispose individual toward behaviour consistency: 3 major types. Associated with cerebrotonia (tense, introverted, socially restrained, inhibited: endomorph. Somatotonia (predisposed to adventure, risks, dominance, aggression, leaders: he found a . 7 correlation with body type and personality to these theories, others have found correlations to be between . 3 and . 4.
