Feedback Questions

1. How important is the feedback to you when doing skills?

2. How does positive feedback make you feel in terms of motivation

3. How does it feel if no feedback is given?

4. Do you use positive self-talk?

5. Would you encourage students to use positive self-talk?

6. What are the drawbacks of self-talk?

7. What role can team mates play in the feedback process during a game?

8. At half time in a game, what kind of feedback do you often hear?

9. Specific and non-specific feedback. I.e. “Well done team”, “Well done Bob”, “Well done Jim, you moved your feet quickly to a side on position”, “Well done team, the defence is playing particularly well” and “Well done the defence, you are stepping up nicely for the offside trap”. A) What works? B) Why do you think this is? C) What is more effective in which situations?

10. During an athletics field event, how can coaches feedback from the stand? What type of feedback is this? (extrinsic, intrinsic, self talk, verbal or visual)

11. How can this be useful? What are the potential drawbacks?

12. Although guidance and feedback are very closely linked, what is the subtle difference?

13. Does the type of activity affect whether you would use terminal or concurrent feedback?

14. What kind of feedback is useful when completing the following tasks and why?

a) Practising overhead clears

b) Tennis serve

c) Sprint start

d) Swimming start

e) Dribbling in hockey

f) Dribbling and passing in a keep ball situation in an invasion game

15. Which types of guidance do you find useful and when?

16. Which types of guidance do you find destructive or demotivating at what points?

17. What is the link between guidance, motivation and feedback? Can you draw a simple diagram to show a link?

18. How does the LTM become affected by positive reinforcement?

19. What are the 4 areas needed to make up a schema?

20. What is the name of the psychologist who developed the schema theory?

21. What is the role of feedback in information processing models?

22. Where does Thorndike’s law of effect fit in?

23. Where does Skinner’s theory of operant conditioning fit in?

24. Are there any drawbacks to feedback. I.e. what happens when a performer becomes dependant on feedback and it is then withdrawn?