Developing Coaching Skills Quiz 1

What is meant by a 'stimulus'?

• Money to improve coaching and equipment

• Something that is used to help a participant learn a skill

• Equipment athletes can use to improve their reaction time

• Something that can trigger a specific behaviour to occur

This type of coach/leader takes a hands off, laid back approach

• Democratic

• Autocratic

• Laissez faire

Which of these statements are true for Classical Conditioning

• Developed by Pavlov

• Believes we can become conditioned to cues,

  sounds, prompts, etc.

• Believes we learn behaviour based on the

  consequences of actions

• Over time we will know what to do without even consciously thinking about it.

S-R bond stands for...

Who came up with the observational learning theory? (Hint: Bobo doll experiment)

• Thorndike

• Bandura

• Skinner

• Paget

FILL IN THE BLANK: Operant conditioning believes that positive reinforcement ______________ the stimulus-response bond (S-R Bond)

• strengthens

• weakens

Which coaching theory thinks participants learn skills/behaviour through demonstrations?

• Classical conditioning

• Operant conditioning

• Observational learning

• Thorndike's law

Which one of these is NOT one of Thorndike's laws?

• Law of understanding

• Law of effect

• Law of readiness

• Law of exercise

Briefly describe what is Thorndike meant when he proposed the 'law of readiness'

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Autocratic leaders...

• Consider the opinions and feedback from their participants

• Let participants decide what to do and just faciliate (very little decision making)

• Make all the decisions and do not consider opinions/ideas from their participants