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Sport Psychology
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Sport Psychology explores the mental and emotional factors that influence athletic performance, participation, and well-being. This course examines topics such as motivation, anxiety, confidence, team dynamics, concentration, and psychological skills training. Students will learn how psychological principles are applied to enhance performance, cope with pressure, recover from injury, and promote personal growth in sports and exercise settings. Through case studies, theory, and practical applications, students will develop an understanding of how to support athletes and teams in achieving optimal performance and enjoyment.
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Sport Psychology Concepts and Applications 7th Edition by Richard H Cox
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Chapter 1: Foundations of Sport Psychology
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Q1) In North American Society,the whit individual has a social advantage simply by being born white.
A)False statement.
B)Black privilege.
C)True statement in certain parts of the United States.
D)White privilege.
Answer: D
Q2) The notion that sound application and practice in sport psychology must be based upon good science.
A)The scientific method.
B)The philosophical method.
C)Evidenced based practice.
D)Watchful waiting.
Answer: C
Q3) The sometimes disputed father of sport psychology in the Soviet Union was
A)Mikhail Gorbachev.
B)Nikita Khrushchev.
C)Piotr Antonovich Roudik.
D)Avksenty Cezarevich Puni.
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Personality As a Core Characteristic of the
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Q1) Which of the following methods of measuring a person's personality is considered to be the least objective,reliable and valid?
A)Structured questionnaire.
B)The Rorschach Test.
C)The Thematic Apperception Test.
D)Casual observation.
Answer: D
Q2) Which of the following levels of personality is the most easily influenced by the social environment?
A)Role-related behaviors.
B)Typical responses.
C)Psychological core.
D)Abnormal responses.
Answer: A
Q3) A personality trait is considered to be
A)A transient and fluctuating personality variable.
B)A stable and enduring personality disposition.
C)A sufficient and accurate estimate of the "whole" person.
D)A situation specific personality variable.
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Self-Confidence and Intrinsic Motivation
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Q1) Which of the following is not an example of situation specific self-confidence?
A)The trait of feeling confident in one's self.
B)Bandura's self-efficacy.
C)Nicholls' perceived ability.
D)Sport confidence.
Answer: A
Q2) The process by which an individual comes to see himself as competent is referred to as the
A)Perceived control process.
B)Cognitive restructuring process.
C)Internal monitoring process.
D)Reflective appraisal process.
Answer: D
Q3) In the integrated theory of motivation in sport,what mediates the relationship between social factors and motivation?
A)Competence.
B)Autonomy.
C)Relatedness.
D)All of the above.
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Goal Perspective Theory
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Q1) Adaptive motivational patterns are associated with
A)Task goal orientation.
B)Opportunity to participate in challenging tasks to demonstrate persistence and effort.
C)Positive perceptions and behaviors.
D)All of the above.
Q2) Antisocial behavior.
A)Voluntary behavior designed to disadvantage and perhaps harm another person.
B)Non-voluntary behavior designed to harm another person.
C)Aggression.
D)Lack of interest in being social.
Q3) Incompatibility component of the matching hypothesis.
A)Good outcomes occur when motivational climate does not agree with goal orientation of the individual.
B)Poor outcomes occur when goal orientation and motivational climate agrees.
C)Poor outcomes occur when goal orientation and motivational climate do not agree.
D)None of the above.
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Chapter 5: Youth Sports
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Q1) Most incidences of violence in youth sport involves
A)Youth participants.
B)Coaches.
C)Officials.
D)Parents.
Q2) A young athlete decides to give up swimming so that he/she can focus upon playing basketball.
A)General sport dropout.
B)Not a sport dropout.
C)Specific sport dropout.
D)None of the above.
Q3) Which of the following is not a potential negative consequence of youth sport participation?
A)Too much competition and focus upon winning.
B)Challenge and excitement of competition.
C)Anxiety associated with sports participation.
D)Violence and aggression precipitated by adults.
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Chapter 6: Attention and Concentration in Sport and Exercise
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Q1) Combining several separate pieces of information into larger ones
A)Chunking.
B)Attenuating.
C)Atomizing
D)Forming.
Q2) _________________ is a theory that posits that reduced performance due to mental pressure is caused by heightened self-consciousness,which causes the athlete to attempt to consciously control previously automated skills.
A)Motor schema theory.
B)Processing efficacy theory.
C)Attentional control theory.
D)Conscious processing theory
Q3) Skilled athletes exhibit a longer "quiet eye period," defined as
A)Period of time that the athlete's eyes are focused on a non-moving object.
B)Time lapse between the last eye fixation and the initiation of a motor response.
C)When athlete is sleeping.
D)Period of time right after a highly arousing event.
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Chapter 7: Anxiety, Stress, and Mood Relationships
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Q1) The physical component of anxiety caused by such things as fear of negative social evaluation,fear of failure,and loss of self-esteem.
A)Somatic anxiety.
B)State anxiety.
C)Distress.
D)Cognitive anxiety.
Q2) Difficulty in acknowledging one's own emotions and feelings along with the inability to express them to others.
A)Cognitive constraint.
B)Alexithymia.
C)Cognitive distortion.
D)Social anxiety.
Q3) _________ allowed that there must be two different kinds of stress.The "good stress" he labeled _________,and the "bad stress" he labeled _________.
A)Nideffer,eustress,distress.
B)Selye,eustress,distress.
C)Guyton,differentiated,undifferentiated.
D)Martens,differentiated,undifferentiateD.
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Chapter 8: Alternatives to Inverted-U Theory
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Q1) Which statement is false relative to recalled optimal precompetitive anxiety?
A)Correlations between actual and recalled optimal precompetitive anxiety are relatively high when measures are taken within two days of each other.
B)The recall method is most effective when a unidimensional measure of anxiety is used.
C)Research shows that the recall method of estimating optimal precompetitive anxiety is unreliable.
D)The recall method should not be used when anxiety is measured by the CSAI-2.
Q2) An individual may experience ___________ when they engage in an interesting activity for its own sake and for no other external purpose or goal.
A)Pleasure.
B)Intrinsic motivation.
C)Flow.
D)TARGET.
Q3) Four dimensional Fazey and Hardy catastrophe model
A)Bifurcated catastrophe model.
B)Cusp catastrophe model.
C)Butterfly catastrophe model.
D)None of the above.
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Chapter 9: Coping and Intervention Strategies in Sport
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Q1) Transcendental meditation is a form of meditation popularized by A)Jane FondA.
B)Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
C)Chakra Yoga Rinzai Zen
D)Buddha
Q2) The notion that coping skills learned in sport can be applied in other sport situations or nonsport situations.
A)Non-generalizability of coping skills.
B)Inadequacy of most coping skills.
C)Distractibility hypothesis.
D)Generalizability of coping skills.
Q3) Which of the following is not a team energizing strategy?
A)Team goal setting.
B)Individual goal setting.
C)Pep talks.
D)Fan support.
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Chapter 10: Goal Setting in Sport
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Q1) Which of the following is not a basic type of goal discussed in the sport psychology literature?
A)Effective goals.
B)Outcome goals.
C)Performance goals.
D)Process goals.
Q2) What might happen if the details of a process goal are attended to during the execution of a well learned sport skill?
A)Attention to detail will result in quality execution of skill.
B)Nothing,because process goals are ineffective.
C)Smooth execution of an automated motor skill may be interfered with.
D)None of the above.
Q3) While almost everyone has had experience at goal setting,most are only moderately effective in achieving their goals.
A)Goal striving conundrum.
B)Goal orientation paradox.
C)Goal orientation theory.
D)Goal setting paradox.
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Chapter 11: Imagery and Hypnosis in Sport
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Q1) In the initial induction phase,hypnotism is physiologically identical to
A)Progressive relaxation.
B)Autogenic training.
C)Meditation.
D)All of the above.
Q2) The athlete imagines herself executing a sport task from within her own body.
A)Internal imagery.
B)Visual imagery.
C)Kinesthetic imagery.
D)Proprioceptive imagery.
Q3) Why is negative thought suppression ineffective or counterproductive to positive outcome?
A)It calls attention to the negative thought that is trying to be avoided.
B)It calls attention to the negative thought that is trying to be facilitated.
C)It calls attention to the positive thought that is trying to be facilitated.
D)None of the above.
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Chapter 12: Psychological Skills Training
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Q1) Which of the following is not an example of a psychological skill?
A)Intrinsic motivation.
B)Self-confidence.
C)Arousal control.
D)Progressive relaxation.
Q2) Planned psychological skill intervention programs have been shown to be effective in research of the following type.
A)Multiple baseline single subject designs.
B)Experimental designs in which participants were assigned to treatment conditions.
C)Qualitative research designs.
D)All of the above.
Q3) The sport psychologist produces a bar graph that illustrates the psychological skills that an athlete perceives is important and progress being made from week to week.
A)Psychological skill performance profiling.
B)Psychological map for peak performance.
C)Mental skills profile.
D)None of the above.
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Chapter 13: Aggression and Violence in Sport
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Q1) Which of the following is not a mechanism of moral disengagement that allows an athlete to disengage from usual moral standards and engage in transgressive behavior?
A)Displacement of responsibility.
B)Social economic status.
C)Attribution of blame.
D)Euphemistic labeling.
Q2) Consistent with the reformulated F-A hypothesis,which of the following would not heighten the impulse for an aggressive response?
A)Objects having aggressive meaning.
B)Arousal and negative affect.
C)Low aggressive disposition.
D)Influences lowering aggressive restraint.
Q3) Recognizing and identifying mechanisms of moral disengagement are important,because
A)Humans can rarely justify acts of aggression.
B)Humans possess an innate need to find justification for unethical behavior.
C)This helps to reduce aggression.
D)None of the above.
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Chapter 14: Audience and Self-Presentation Effects in Sport
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Q1) Varca further proposed that the effect of an interactive audience upon the visiting team would be manifested in "dysfunctional assertive behavior." In other words the visiting team would
A)Exhibit more hostile aggression.
B)Be whistled for more personal fouls.
C)Play with poise and control.
D)Execute fewer slam dunks.
Q2) According to research conducted by Silva and Andrew (1987),the home advantage in collegiate basketball is due to which of the following?
A)Compared to pregame standards of good performance,the home team athletes hit a higher percentage of their field goals.
B)Compared to pregame standards of good performance,the visiting team athletes hit a lower percentage of their field goals.
C)The home crowd facilitates less than expected performance in the home team.
D)None of the above.
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Chapter 15: Team Cohesion in Sport
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Q1) Which of the following is not a determinant of team cohesion?
A)Initiatory hazing.
B)Communication among team members.
C)Individual self-determined motivation.
D)Team efficacy.
Q2) Team cohesion has a moderating effect upon
A)Cognitive restructuring.
B)Disruptive effects of self-handicapping.
C)Hypnotic suggestions.
D)Imagery training.
Q3) Which of the following is not an example of absolute performance effectiveness?
A)Winning a golf tournament.
B)Placing last in the 200 meter backstroke in swimming.
C)Improving my in court percentage of first serves in tennis.
D)Being a member of a winning basketball team.
Q4) An important consequence of team cohesion:
A)Effective absolute group performance.
B)Effective absolute individual performance.
C)Effective relative individual and group performance.
D)All of the above.
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Chapter 16: Leadership and Communication in Sport
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A)Consideration.
B)Employee oriented.
C)DemocratiC.
D)Initiating structure.
Q2) Disproportionate placement of blacks or minorities into positions of low task dependence and propinquity.
A)Centrality.
B)Discrimination.
C)Stacking.
D)Managing.
Q3) Which of the following is incongruent with a transactional leadership style?
A)Consideration.
B)Autocratic.
C)Initiating structure.
D)Task motivateD.
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Chapter 17: Exercise Psychology
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Q1) The possession of high levels of competence,autonomy,and relatedness leads to a high level of intrinsic motivation,which leads to desirable consequences such as healthy exercise behavior.
A)Social cognitive theory.
B)Goal perspective theory applied to exercise.
C)Self-determination theory applied to exercise.
D)Disconnected values model.
Q2) The _________________ postulates that exercise is associated with brain production of chemical that have a "morphine-like" effect on the exerciser (pain reduction and general euphoria).
A)Cardiovascular hypothesis.
B)Endorphin hypothesis.
C)Amine hypothesis.
D)Dual-mode hypothesis.
Q3) Exercise that involves the use of weights.
A)Chronic aerobic exercise.
B)Resistance exercise.
C)Acute aerobic exercise.
D)Acute anaerobic exercise.
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Chapter 18: The Psychology of Athletic Injuries and Career
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Q1) Using writing as a therapeutic catharsis to reduce emotional trauma associated with a difficult rehabilitation process:
A)Therapeutic writing program.
B)Cognitive restructuring program.
C)Emotional disclosure paradigm.
D)None of the above.
Q2) Which of the following is not a component part of the conceptual model of career termination?
A)Causes of career termination.
B)Factors related to adaption to career termination.
C)Return to competition following injury.
D)Career termination distress.
Q3) _________________ posits that the motivation to adhere to injury rehabilitation is thought to be based upon personal incentive,beliefs about self,and perceived options.
A)Concordance theory.
B)Personal investment theory.
C)Protection motivation theory.
D)Cognitive appraisal theory.
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Chapter 19: Drug Abuse in Sport and Exercise
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Q1) The Exercise Dependence Scale allows exercisers to be categorized as exercise
A)Dependent.
B)Nondependent but symptomatic.
C)Nondependent but asymptomatiC.
D)All of the above.
Q2) Form of short-term overtraining that is a part of normal training for maximum benefit.
A)Training overload.
B)Overtraining.
C)Overreaching.
D)Staleness.
Q3) In order to be classified as being addicted to exercise,an individual must score high in three of seven dependence characteristics.Which of following would not be included in this list of characteristics?
A)Must continually increase exercise to obtain desired effect.
B)Maintain a regular daily exercise program tailored to the individuals needs.
C)Spend excessive amounts of time exercising.
D)Continue to exercise in face of illness or injury.
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