PSYC 3480 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Electronic Signatures In Global And National Commerce Act, Sport Psychology, Psychometrics
23 Sep 2013
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Chapter 2 research perspectives in sport and exercise psychology. Science can be defined as a dynamic yet imperfect process of knowledge accumulation through research. Scientific approaches to knowledge acquisition differ from other sources of information that athletes, coaches, and personal trainers could easily resort to in the pursuit of optimizing performance or sustaining involvement in exercise. Rules of logic could be derived inductively (moving from specific observation to a general principle) or deductively (moving from general principle to specific observation) depending on how logic is applied to the problem. Majority of researchers in sport and exercise psychology attempt to describe, predict, or explain phenomena of interest: descriptive research provides in-depth portrayal of phenomenon of interest, either in general or for specific participant group. Study that describes athletes" use of imagery in sport: predictive research - establishing directional relationships among phenomena of interest.
