PGA Test Teaching and Coaching

How can a teacher utilize negative augmented feedback when looking to effect change in a student's behavior? - Answer - Student will try to avoid those. Should Instructors avoid giving positive feedback when using negative feedback as punishment? - Answer - No, positive feedback should work in conjunction pg. 11 What type of reinforcement does feedback function as when it strengthens undesirable behavior? - Answer - Positive reinforcement pg. 11 What type of feedback do biofeedback devices provide? - Answer - Augmented feedback How does a player evaluate skill movements? - Answer - Intrinsic feedback and augmented How will knowledge feedback influence the student? - Answer - Influences direction of students efforts. Why is it difficult for beginners to determine if they performed the skill movements as planned? - Answer - They have little idea to know if they performed as intended. When is augmented feedback given immediately after skill performance considered positive reinforcement? - Answer - Only if it increases the probability that those skill movements will occur in the future. What function of feedback energizes and directs student behavior toward achieving a goal? - Answer - Feedback as Motivation What is the defining property of feedback that functions as reinforcement? - Answer - It strengthens behavior teachers wants student to learn What is an example of intrinsic feedback serving as negative reinforcement? - Answer - When the student feels the dissatisfaction of seeing a drive go OB and kinesthetically feels that his or her body did not move as planned pg. 8 What should teachers expect their students to learn from the feedback they provide for the purpose of improving or maintaining performance? - Answer - What should students learn from instruction given to improve or maintain performance? - Answer -