Chapter 6

Question 1

1. Describe the three main components of the motivational package that Connie applied to tim price the practice performance of speed skaters

Answer 1

• goal setting
• self monitoring
• performance feedback

Question 2

3. In general what is performance feedback ?

Answer 2

• it is a consequence of an operant behaviour that can influence
  A) future instanced if that behaviour
  B) future instances of an alternative behaviour

Question 3

4. What is proprioceptive feedback ? Describe an example illustrates how proprioceptive feedback could enable an athlete to successfully repeat a previously learned athletic skill

Answer 3

Proprioceptive feedback a type of performance feedback that is the internal stimulation generated from movement of the body in space and by the position and movement of parts of the key with respect to others

Example: after a young athlete has learned a sport skill the proprioceptive feedback enables the individual to successfully repeat that skill such as shooting a basketball accurately from the free throw line

Question 4

6. What is external information feedback ? Give an example

Answer 4

External informational feedback is a judgment provided to an athlete about the quality of performance that the athlete just displayed

Example: a figure skater will know from the proprioceptive feedback whether of not a jump has been landed but the figure skater will have difficulty judging the quality of his/ her choreographed presentation entail the skater hears the presentation score from the judges

Question 5

13. What are two reasons that public posting of practice performance might be more effective as a motivator that the athletes private monitoring of performance ?

Answer 5

1. If can be effective in stimulating peer interactions to reinforce increased output
2. If can also serve as an important reminder to coaches to provide praise for progress

Question 6

14. What is meant by “recruitment of positive feedback”? Illustrate with a sport example that is not in this chapter

Answer 6

It is a strategy to improve performance that involves an individual emitting a desirable behaviour and then telling someone about it in order to receive positive feedback

Example: a figure skater asked her coach to give her a grade in his hard she worked