Kinesiology 1080A/B Lecture Notes - Coronary Artery Disease, Autopilot, Virtual Reality

• School: Western University
• Department: Kinesiology
• Course: Kinesiology 1080A/B
• Professor: Matthew Heath

Document Summary

Consider how psychological factors affect an individual"s physical performance in sport. Consider how participation in sport affects psychological development, health and well- being. Behaviour: unique way of responding to all stimuli. Performance: goal-directed behaviour for purpose of short term execution of a discrete task. Orientations to sport/exercise psychology: behavioural: behaviour of athletes determined by the environment, psychophysiological: study impact of physiological responses to activity on behaviour, cognitive-behavioural: behaviour determined by one"s interpretation of both environment and cognitions (thoughts) Sport psychology: understanding human behaviour and performance how to study them, what factors to study. Assumes all reality can be reduced to individual or constituent parts and that knowledge that isn"t based on directly observable data is meaningless. Founded on concept of objectivity (lack of bias -- researchers are detached observers and manipulators of nature) Process/method of learning that uses systematic, controlled, empirical and critical filtering of knowledge acquired through experience.