Test 2 Flashcards
Types of issues that a physical activity sociologist investigates?
How many female officials are employed in professional sports? How available are tennis, golf, and swimming to all?
Know the three goals of sociology of physical activity?
1) To examine PA with a penetrating gaze. 2) To identify and analyze patterns of stability ad change in PA. 3) To critique the PA programs
Be able to give a few examples of what sociology of physical activity and sport has taught us?
They tell us why races play certain sports like why tennis, golf, and swimming are usually more white predominant.
What is motor behavior?
The study of how motor skills are developed, learned, and controlled.
What are the three sub-categories of motor behavior?
Motor learning, motor control, motor development
What do motor learning, motor development, and motor control entail?
Motor Learning- is how we learn to do movement
Motor Control- is how we control and produce coordinated sequences of movement
Motor development is how the learning and control of motor skills changes across a life time
Be able to list some topics in motor learning, development, and control
Motor learning- stages of learning, transfer of skill, and individual differences.
Motor Control- General motor program theory and dynamical systems theory
Motor Development- Differences in body mechanics, growth and deterioration
Who uses motor behavior principles?
Coaches, PE Teachers, PT’s and OT’s, and Personal Trainers
What is sport and exercise psychology(SEP)?
The study of the mental processes of human as they engage in physical activity
What are the two goals of SEP?
Optimal Performance(Athletes) and Optimal Satisfaction(Everybody)
What is the difference between sport psychology and exercise psychology?
Sport psychology is competitive sport competition and Exercise psychology is more fitness, exercise, health, and wellness
Know the difference between a psychologist and a psychology consultant?
A psychology consultant normally works on the general goal of teaching mental skills necessary to perform consistently in training an competition and a psychologist provide psychotherapy and treat psychological issues not related to sports
Be able to list what sport psychology consultants can do?
Private practices, mental training coach, private sector, and professional sport teams
Who was the first sport psychology consultant?
Coleman Griffith, 1938
Be able to list and describe some topics in sport psychology?
Motivation, Group/Team, and Burnout
What is biomechanics
The applications of the mechanical laws of physic to the structure, motion, and functioning of humans and our musculoskeletal system
What are some introductory subjects necessary to understand biomechanics?
Algebra/Trigonometry, Physics, Anatomy and Physiology, and Engineering
What are the main goals of biomechanics?
1) To understand the basic laws of physics affect and shape the structure and the function of the human body
2) To apply the understanding in order to improve the outcomes of our movements, or increase or maintain the safety and health of our tissues
What do biomechanics do?
Sport performance, design foot wear, forensic biomechanist, prosthetic limb specialist, and professor/researcher
What types of technological apparatus are used for research in biomechanics?
Force plate, video motion analysis, and electromyography
Be able to list and explain some contributions from biomechanics?
Research on shoe wear so every sport has specialized foot wear. Limb prosthetics for veterans is a rather important contribution
What is exercise physiology?
The applications of principles from Biology and Chemistry to understand how the body responds and adapts to physical activity
What are some introductory subjects necessary to understand ex phys?
biology and chemistry
What are the four goals of ex phys?
Enhance sport performance, improve physical fitness and health, promote health , and understand changes and adaptions to PA?
What can exercise physiologists do?
Detailed analysis of the bodies’ composition and they asses the health and fitness for people. Health clinic, hospital, and rehab.
