PGA Teaching and Coaching Test with Questions and
Answers.
How can a teacher utilize negative augmented feedback when looking to effect
change in a student's behavior? - ANSWER verbal & non-verbal
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 Negative 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 Using a training aid or drills that have unpleasant properties.
What should teachers expect their students to learn from the feedback they provide
for the purpose of improving or maintaining performance? - ANSWER Ability to
understand, detect, then correct the error
What should students learn from instruction given to improve or maintain
performance? - ANSWER
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?
- ANSWER Redundant KR
, The teacher's role is to help the student improve his own ability to do what? -
ANSWER Understand, detect and correct errors
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? - ANSWER Feedback as Negative Reinforcement
What type of results can augmented feedback that functions as positive or negative
reinforcement produce? - ANSWER 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? - ANSWER Away from what your body
would feel/Towards the correct fundamentals pg. 15
When augmented feedback is used as punishment, when is it most effective? -
ANSWER When it acts as positive reinforcement pg. 11
What does research suggest when a student has more control over the learning
process? - ANSWER More actively engaged
Can a student improve performance without learning taking place? - ANSWER Yes
pg. 15
What is good reason for delivering error augmented feedback over non-error
feedback? - ANSWER Actively engages the student in the learning process Pg. 18
Generally speaking, why do advanced players need more descriptive knowledge of
performance feedback than beginning players? - ANSWER Because they know
how to use that information pg.21
Will beginners typically benefit more from video feedback than advanced players? -
ANSWER 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? - ANSWER Lack of understanding
What is the likely cause of a performance decline after a student has been using a
training aid? - ANSWER Breakdown of other parts of the golf swing pg. 45
Seeing one's swing in a mirror is an example of what type of augmented feedback? -
ANSWER Visual KP feedback pg. 23
A student reading her spin rate data from a launch monitor is an example of what
type of augmented feedback? - ANSWER Terminal augmented feedback pg. 26 &
28
When is the best time to provide terminal augmented feedback? - ANSWER
Delaying feedback by a short amount of time after the shot
Answers.
How can a teacher utilize negative augmented feedback when looking to effect
change in a student's behavior? - ANSWER verbal & non-verbal
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 Negative 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 Using a training aid or drills that have unpleasant properties.
What should teachers expect their students to learn from the feedback they provide
for the purpose of improving or maintaining performance? - ANSWER Ability to
understand, detect, then correct the error
What should students learn from instruction given to improve or maintain
performance? - ANSWER
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?
- ANSWER Redundant KR
, The teacher's role is to help the student improve his own ability to do what? -
ANSWER Understand, detect and correct errors
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? - ANSWER Feedback as Negative Reinforcement
What type of results can augmented feedback that functions as positive or negative
reinforcement produce? - ANSWER 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? - ANSWER Away from what your body
would feel/Towards the correct fundamentals pg. 15
When augmented feedback is used as punishment, when is it most effective? -
ANSWER When it acts as positive reinforcement pg. 11
What does research suggest when a student has more control over the learning
process? - ANSWER More actively engaged
Can a student improve performance without learning taking place? - ANSWER Yes
pg. 15
What is good reason for delivering error augmented feedback over non-error
feedback? - ANSWER Actively engages the student in the learning process Pg. 18
Generally speaking, why do advanced players need more descriptive knowledge of
performance feedback than beginning players? - ANSWER Because they know
how to use that information pg.21
Will beginners typically benefit more from video feedback than advanced players? -
ANSWER 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? - ANSWER Lack of understanding
What is the likely cause of a performance decline after a student has been using a
training aid? - ANSWER Breakdown of other parts of the golf swing pg. 45
Seeing one's swing in a mirror is an example of what type of augmented feedback? -
ANSWER Visual KP feedback pg. 23
A student reading her spin rate data from a launch monitor is an example of what
type of augmented feedback? - ANSWER Terminal augmented feedback pg. 26 &
28
When is the best time to provide terminal augmented feedback? - ANSWER
Delaying feedback by a short amount of time after the shot
