PSYC 2660 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Behaviorism, Sport Psychology

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

Document Summary

What is behaviour: anything that a person does, technical term: anything that an organism does that is muscular, glandular or electrical, types of behaviours. Those behaviours that are that can be monitored by observers. Ex) watching someone do a quarter mile sprint. Ex) someone thinking some thing: general terms for behaviour (tradiional point-of-view) These are all general terms to sum up a person"s behaviour. Ex) richard is very intelligent and has a good aitude and personality in school: this statement sums up all his behaviours in the classroom. Ex) class clown isn"t always a rude or disrespecful person. The phrases (cid:3247)personality, moivaion and intelligence(cid:3248) are a kind of behaviour a person displays: these summed up terms for behaviors can have efects on the persons performance. Labelling someone a certain way can efect their performance. Pros: can enhance performance and give the posiively labelled individual a sense of moivaion.