Chapter 1 - Introduction to Sports Psych Flashcards
What is sports psychology defined as?
An interdisciplinary field integrating sport science with applied psychology.
What are some examples for applied sports psych?
Cognitive psychology, clinical and counselling psychology, behavioural neuroscience, social psychology, developmental psychology, and health psychology
What are the 3 roles of exercise sport psychologists?
Teaching, Research, Consulting
What are the 3 sub-methods of consulting?
Emotional, Cognitive, Behavioural
What is emotional consulting?
Emotional focuses on changing negative emotions into positive ones
What is cognitive consulting?
Focuses on how someone’s thoughts influence emotional experience, motivation, health and performance
What is behavioural consulting?
Focuses on how behaviours can influence performance and wellbeing
What is the ISSP?
International Society of Sports Psychology
What is NASPA?
North American Society of Sport and Physical Activity
What is ontology?
The nature of reality
What is epistemology?
The nature of knowledge
What is methodology?
The methods of finding out knowledge
What is realism?
The external world exists independently of human perception
The external world exists as a mental construct.
What is an objectivist?
Emphasis on empirical information - knowledge is derived from objective information and studies
What is a constructionist?
Emphasis on individuals building and contracting knowledge based on personal experience and emotions
What is a subjectivist?
Emphasis on suggesting that knowledge and truth are relative to cultural, historical and individual perspectives.
What is qualitative research?
Focuses on the quality of experience - thoughts, feelings, actions (personal and descriptive)
What is quantitative research?
What is a research paradigm?
The framework of scientific design and reasoning -thought of addressing 3 major questions: ontological,
epistemological, methodical
What are the 2 major research paradigms?
Qualitative - Interpretivist
Quantitative - Positivist
Examples of Quantitive methodology?
- Deductive process
— Cause and effect
— Static design - categories isolated before study
— Context free
— Generalizations leading to prediction, explanation, and understanding
— Accurate and reliable through validity and reliability
Examples of Qualitiative methodology
— Inductive process
— Mutual simultaneous shaping of factors
— Emerging designs - categories identified during research process
— Context bound
— Patterns, theories developed for understanding
— Accurate and reliable through verification
