Exam I definitions

Kinesiology 140 with Drollette at University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign

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Sport Psychology

scientific study of human behavior in sport and exercise and the practical application of that knowledge

Sport Psychology

mental management of physical resources

research

study of behavior insport

qualitative research

maintanece of external validity - field observations, personal interview, does not mess with performance

quantitative research

stat analysis, maniupulate variable4s, hypothesis testing - internal validity

Coleman Roberts Griffith

father of american sport psychology at u of i under huff and dept. of physical welfare

norman tripett

first research on sport psychology, principle of dynamogeny

sport sociology

studies nework of roels, relationships, and interactions found in psort and their relationship to institutional nature of sport

social-psychological research levels:

micro and macro

micro

emphasis on structure of small groups - what are principles underlining group formation, stability, change

sport teams reveal info about social proccesses of competition and cooperation

societal norms

prescriptions for how one should act and dress in any given situation

values

ciriteria used in assessing relative merit and correctness of objects, ideas, events

status and role at societal level

groups and members have social positions and behavior expectations that limit and constrain behavior

societal institutions

arrangements channel behavior in prescribed ways based on important areaso fsocietal life

functionalist theory

attributes to societies the characteristics of cohesion, consenus, cooperation, what holds groups together?

conflict theory

social processes leading to disharmony - power of NCAA over student athlete

normative research in sociology

value laden, proves a point - assumes ways things should be and searches for evidence that proves this is not the case

nonnormative

scientific description and explanation of what is, rather than what ought to be - subjective!

performance

goal or achievement orented behavior - evaluated publicly, exceeding over others

sport behavior

sequence of motor acts that varies w/regard to an athletes skillfullness and may be incorporated into performance

abilities

provide basis for eventual skill aquisition, influenced by heredity

skills

learned and highly specialized acts or refinements of bsic motor activities that is developed through repeated trials

fine

small muscle movement (writing)

gross

large skeletal movement (running)

open

movement in response to something else (hitting a baseball)

closed

self paced motor action (serving a volleyball)

discrete

skill with definite beginnning and end (pitching)

serial

short sequence of movements in particular order (bowling)

continual

repetitive movement over and over (cylcing)

behavioral theory

learning is flexible, manipulation of frequency and intensity of stimuli can teach any skill, any behavior can be sacntioned into more simple component behaviors

habituation

adjustment to repeated stimuli that provoke behabior, develop threshold for tolearting and interpreting stimuli - diminshing ofemotional response to frewuent stimulus - shooting basketball in hotile arena

operant conditioning

learning behavior through rewards, correct response reinforced, incorrect is not

positive punishment

running laps for swearing

negative punishment

taking away playing time for swearing

social cognitive theory

thing about past and future events, form opinoins regarding self efficacy - learning occurs through obsercation and rewards or punishment

modeling

attention, retention, motor reproduction, motivation

modeling example

QB who checks off at line due to formation of defense

socialization

process by which individuals learn attitudes, values, behaviors associated with a given social role - occurs through reinforcement and modeling

social learning theory

examins role of modeling, imitaiton, and vicarioius learning in relation to socialization

socialization occurs as result of

observing, integrating, copying proper or desirable behaviors - gretzky vs probert

types of modeling

observational learning, live vs video, verbal vs silent, step by step vs all at once

determinants of sport participation

personal attributes, socialization situations, significant others

personal attributes

peronality variables, achievement otivation, self efficacy

socialization situations

context in which socialization takes place

significant others

individuals who serve as role models

proposition 48

1986, allegations of special treatment during admissions processes -put requirements to certain GPA's and classes in high schoola s well as ACT SAT scores - negatively affected african americans

proposition 42

created in response to cultural bias allegations of prop. 48 - enables athletes who only partially meet academic requirements of prop 58 to earn a regular scholarship for first year based on need, athelte is eneligible to play during first year - have to compete with other need based students

harnters model of percieved competence

examines interaction and influences upon self-esteem of socialization, development factors, and individual differences in children - positive and negatice affect directly relate to achievement and is a consequence of self-perceptions, self confidence also related to achievement

kubler ross model

human grieving model - 5 stages: shock/denial, anxiety or guilt, depression, acceptance

thanology-rosenberg

retirement from sport akin to social death, focuses on how members of group treat individual that left that group - evidence is anedotal, hersey - NOT strongly supported with evidence

social death

characterized by social isolation and rejection from former group, part of thanoogy rosenberg model

coial gerontology

emphasis on aging, considers life satisfaction as being dependent on characteristics of sports experience

dissengagement theory

society and person withdraw fro god of both - younder enter work force, older retire and enjoy it

self identity

depends on degree to which athlete define self worth in terms of participation and achievement in sport

perceptions of control

exacerbates distress as profound lack of control in the three main reasons

social identity

feeling that athelete is no longer important

social support

vast majority of athletes friends come from sport, social activities from athletic life

sport specializtion

ahtletes limit participation to one psort to refine skill level and increase chances of gaining college scholarship

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