PGA Teaching and Coaching Test, 189 Questions
and Correct Answers, 100% Correct. 2024/5.
How can a teacher utilize negative augmented feedback when looking to effect change in a student's
behavior?
verbal & non-verbal
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?
Negative reinforcement pg. 11
What type of feedback do biofeedback devices provide?
Augmented feedback
How does a player evaluate skill movements?
Intrinsic feedback and augmented
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?
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?
Ability to understand, detect, then correct the error
, What should students learn from instruction given to improve or maintain performance?
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 KR
The teacher's role is to help the student improve his own ability to do what?
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?
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?
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?
When it acts as positive reinforcement pg. 11
What does research suggest when a student has more control over the learning process?
More actively engaged
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?
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?
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?
Lack of understanding
and Correct Answers, 100% Correct. 2024/5.
How can a teacher utilize negative augmented feedback when looking to effect change in a student's
behavior?
verbal & non-verbal
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?
Negative reinforcement pg. 11
What type of feedback do biofeedback devices provide?
Augmented feedback
How does a player evaluate skill movements?
Intrinsic feedback and augmented
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?
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?
Ability to understand, detect, then correct the error
, What should students learn from instruction given to improve or maintain performance?
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 KR
The teacher's role is to help the student improve his own ability to do what?
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?
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?
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?
When it acts as positive reinforcement pg. 11
What does research suggest when a student has more control over the learning process?
More actively engaged
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?
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?
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?
Lack of understanding
