PGA Teaching and Coaching Test with 189 Correct
Questions and Answers.
How can a teacher utilize negative augmented feedback when looking to effect
change in a student's behavior?
As a punishment through verbal or nonverbal communication.
Should Instructors avoid giving positive feedback when using negative
feedback as punishment?
No, positive feedback should work in conjunction pg. 11
What type of reinforcement does feedback function as when it strengthens
undesirable behavior?
Positive reinforcement pg. 11
What type of feedback do biofeedback devices provide?
Augmented feedback
How does a player evaluate skill movements?
Intrinsic feedback and augmented (KP)
How will knowledge feedback influence the student?
Influences direction of students efforts.
Why is it difficult for beginners to determine if they performed the skill
movements as planned?
They have little idea to know if they performed as intended.
When is augmented feedback given immediately after skill performance
considered positive reinforcement?
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?
Feedback as Motivation
What is the defining property of feedback that functions as reinforcement?
It strengthens behavior teachers wants student to learn
What is an example of intrinsic feedback serving as negative reinforcement?
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?
Help student understand, detect, and correct their performance.
What should students learn from instruction given to improve or maintain
performance?
Increase Motivation
A teacher watches a student leave a ten-foot putt short and then informs her
that the putt needed to be hit with more speed. This is an example of what type
of feedback?
Redundant augmented feedback
The teacher's role is to help the student improve his own ability to do what?
Help student understand, detect, and correct their performance.
A teacher shows frustration when a student performs a skill incorrectly. To
avoid this response in the future, the student focuses on correcting the skill
movement. This is an example of what?
Feedback as Negative Reinforcement
, What type of results can augmented feedback that functions as positive or
negative reinforcement produce?
Strengthens the behavior that the teacher wants the student to learn pg. 6
When a training aid is used correctly, and skill performance suffers, where
does the concurrent KP direct the student's attention?
Towards the correct fundamentals pg. 15
When augmented feedback is used as punishment, when is it most effective?
Treat every student equally pg. 11
What does research suggest when a student has more control over the
learning process?
The skill more deeply pg. 31
Can a student improve performance without learning taking place?
Yes pg. 15
What is good reason for delivering error augmented feedback over non-error
feedback?
Pg. 18 actively engages the learner.
Generally speaking, why do advanced players need more descriptive
knowledge of performance feedback than beginning players?
Because they know how to use that information pg.21
Will beginners typically benefit more from video feedback than advanced
players?
No, advanced players because they know what to look for pg. 22
When using video during practice, what can be more harmful than if the player
had not used video feedback?
Slows down the lesson when swing features are not readily discernable pg. 23
What is the likely cause of a performance decline after a student has been
using a training aid?
Breakdown of other parts of the golfswing pg. 45
Seeing one's swing in a mirror is an example of what type of augmented
feedback?
Visual Augmented feedback pg. 23
A student reading her spin rate data from a launch monitor is an example of
what type of augmented feedback?
Terminal augmented or terminal KR
When is the best time to provide terminal augmented feedback?
Delaying feedback by a short amount of time.
What is the effect of giving augmented feedback less frequently while learning
takes place?
Encourage students to try to evaluate and correct the next swing based on intrinsic
feedback. Pg 29
What is the effect of giving a student less frequent augmented feedback?
Prevention of cognitive overload pg. 40
What is the effect of giving a student more frequent augmented feedback?
Swing performance improves
What frequency schedule method is based on research that suggests that
students become more actively engaged in the learning process when they
have control over it?
Self-regulated pg. 31
Which KP is recommended for students who are not sure of how to use the
information to improve their golf skill learning?
Questions and Answers.
How can a teacher utilize negative augmented feedback when looking to effect
change in a student's behavior?
As a punishment through verbal or nonverbal communication.
Should Instructors avoid giving positive feedback when using negative
feedback as punishment?
No, positive feedback should work in conjunction pg. 11
What type of reinforcement does feedback function as when it strengthens
undesirable behavior?
Positive reinforcement pg. 11
What type of feedback do biofeedback devices provide?
Augmented feedback
How does a player evaluate skill movements?
Intrinsic feedback and augmented (KP)
How will knowledge feedback influence the student?
Influences direction of students efforts.
Why is it difficult for beginners to determine if they performed the skill
movements as planned?
They have little idea to know if they performed as intended.
When is augmented feedback given immediately after skill performance
considered positive reinforcement?
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?
Feedback as Motivation
What is the defining property of feedback that functions as reinforcement?
It strengthens behavior teachers wants student to learn
What is an example of intrinsic feedback serving as negative reinforcement?
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?
Help student understand, detect, and correct their performance.
What should students learn from instruction given to improve or maintain
performance?
Increase Motivation
A teacher watches a student leave a ten-foot putt short and then informs her
that the putt needed to be hit with more speed. This is an example of what type
of feedback?
Redundant augmented feedback
The teacher's role is to help the student improve his own ability to do what?
Help student understand, detect, and correct their performance.
A teacher shows frustration when a student performs a skill incorrectly. To
avoid this response in the future, the student focuses on correcting the skill
movement. This is an example of what?
Feedback as Negative Reinforcement
, What type of results can augmented feedback that functions as positive or
negative reinforcement produce?
Strengthens the behavior that the teacher wants the student to learn pg. 6
When a training aid is used correctly, and skill performance suffers, where
does the concurrent KP direct the student's attention?
Towards the correct fundamentals pg. 15
When augmented feedback is used as punishment, when is it most effective?
Treat every student equally pg. 11
What does research suggest when a student has more control over the
learning process?
The skill more deeply pg. 31
Can a student improve performance without learning taking place?
Yes pg. 15
What is good reason for delivering error augmented feedback over non-error
feedback?
Pg. 18 actively engages the learner.
Generally speaking, why do advanced players need more descriptive
knowledge of performance feedback than beginning players?
Because they know how to use that information pg.21
Will beginners typically benefit more from video feedback than advanced
players?
No, advanced players because they know what to look for pg. 22
When using video during practice, what can be more harmful than if the player
had not used video feedback?
Slows down the lesson when swing features are not readily discernable pg. 23
What is the likely cause of a performance decline after a student has been
using a training aid?
Breakdown of other parts of the golfswing pg. 45
Seeing one's swing in a mirror is an example of what type of augmented
feedback?
Visual Augmented feedback pg. 23
A student reading her spin rate data from a launch monitor is an example of
what type of augmented feedback?
Terminal augmented or terminal KR
When is the best time to provide terminal augmented feedback?
Delaying feedback by a short amount of time.
What is the effect of giving augmented feedback less frequently while learning
takes place?
Encourage students to try to evaluate and correct the next swing based on intrinsic
feedback. Pg 29
What is the effect of giving a student less frequent augmented feedback?
Prevention of cognitive overload pg. 40
What is the effect of giving a student more frequent augmented feedback?
Swing performance improves
What frequency schedule method is based on research that suggests that
students become more actively engaged in the learning process when they
have control over it?
Self-regulated pg. 31
Which KP is recommended for students who are not sure of how to use the
information to improve their golf skill learning?
