PSYC 2660 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Corporal Punishment, Sport Psychology, Classical Conditioning

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2660
• Professor: Garry Martin

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Assignment 1: distinguish between covert and overt behaviour. Give example of each not in this chapter. Overt behaviors can be easily monitored by observers and covert are activities that cannot be readily monitored by observers. Behavioural deficit is too little behavior of a particular type. Behavioral excess is too much behaviour of a particular type. First, regardless of the labels attached to an athlete it is behavioral deficits of behavioral excesses that causes athletes to seek help from a sport psychologist. Stimuli is the antecedents and consequences that are typically manipulated. The three things are traditional psychology and personality assessment, hypnosis, and the use of drugs: list six characteristics of behavioral sport psychology. The second characteristic is that its treatment procedures and techniques are ways of rearranging antecedents and consequences of an athlete"s behavior to help the athlete perform to his or her full potential.