Kinesiology 1070A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Smoking Cessation, Systematic Review, Gift Card

• School: Western University
• Department: Kinesiology
• Course: Kinesiology 1070A/B
• Professor: Rollo

Document Summary

Lecture 26: novel ways to change exercise behaviour. Review: exercise psychology: understanding exercise and sedentary behaviour, measuring exercise and sedentary behaviour, predicting and modifying exercise and sedentary behaviour (behaviour change) Health psychology is similar to exercise psychology, but health psychology looks at physical activity as a treatment behaviour for other things such as mental health disorders, smoking cessation, etc. With exercise psychology, we are looking at understanding and measuring exercise and sedentary behaviour not looking at exercise as the treatment, but exercise itself. Study: holding the hunger games hostage at the gym an evaluation of temptation. Study: framing financial incentive to increase physical activity among overweight and obese. It is also 40% higher than the number of steps taken by the average adult. The gai(cid:374) i(cid:374)(cid:272)e(cid:374)ti(cid:448)e (cid:449)as(cid:374)"t as effe(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause the(cid:455) did(cid:374)"t see the (cid:373)o(cid:374)e(cid:455) as theirs (cid:455)et. Increase activity by providing information necessary to motivate people to change their behaviour and to maintain change over time.