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Types of feedback

Sport psychology: goal setting, guidance and feedback

Unit Summary

This unit develops understanding of how goal setting and SMART targets can be used effectively to improve performance as well as unpicking the different types of guidance and feedback that help us learn sporting skills.

Lesson Summary

You will learn to identify and use different types of feedback to improve performance.

Key Notes

  • Intrinsic feedback comes from the performer's own senses and feelings.
  • Extrinsic feedback comes from external sources such as coaches, peers or parents.
  • Feedback can be either positive or negative depending on whether it focuses on correct or incorrect actions.
  • Knowledge of results is feedback concerned with the outcome of movement.
  • Knowledge of performance is feedback concerned with how well movements are performed.

Vocabulary To Learn

  • intrinsic feedback: feedback received via receptors in the muscles or sensations that are felt by the performer, providing information from movement
  • extrinsic feedback: feedback received from outside of the performer, e.g. from a coach
  • knowledge of results: feedback related to the outcome of a performance such as the result or final position
  • knowledge of performance: feedback related to how well movements were performed

Common Mistakes To Avoid

  • Types of feedback are often confused with types of guidance.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

1. Explain the lesson in two key points.

Intrinsic feedback comes from the performer's own senses and feelings. Extrinsic feedback comes from external sources such as coaches, peers or parents.

2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'intrinsic feedback'

feedback received via receptors in the muscles or sensations that are felt by the performer, providing information from movement.

3. Correct this common mistake.

Mistake: Types of feedback are often confused with types of guidance. Correction: Ensure students are able to differentiate between guidance, which is information needed to understand how to perform a skill, and feedback which is information about how well it is being performed.

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