Texas State University

PSY 3336

QUIZ

1)Increasing team cohesion, avoiding distractions, and creating and sticking to clear mental and physical plans are all helpful:

2. Examining how participation in sports can shape development and well-being is part of the field of:
3. Sport psychology was most academic in focus during which phase?
4. If a researcher wants to study why a team is struggling with communication and cohesion, which method will be most helpful?
5. A meta-analysis is used when a researcher wants to accomplish which of the following?
6. Why is Dorothy Yates an important figure in sport psychology?
7. Sport psychology is only helpful to elite or professional athletes.
8. In order to achieve external validity, researchers need to perform their experiments in a laboratory setting.

9. Which of the following is an internal factor that could influence the outcome of an athletic performance?
10. According to the attribution theory, if an athlete performs poorly during a game, and blames their poor performance on internal and stable factors, they are likely to    in their next game.
11. Which of the following may be the most functional type of attribution for an athlete to make following a poor performance?
12. Which of the following helps improve athletes’ expectations for future success, leads to more positive emotions, and increases persistence on skill-building tasks?
13. A study on learned helplessness showed that if a person is not aware how they have performed, and are told that they performed worse than they actually did, they will have a poorer

14. Attributional training is used to teach athletes how to ignore how their own effort impacts their performance.

15. People feel worse about a negative outcome if they did not act, rather than if they chose to act.

16. Which of the following is an external factor that could influence the outcome of an athletic performance?
17. Cognitive efficiency, physical skill/training, and resilience are all parts of which model?
18. Intrinsic motivation, when compared to extrinsic motivation, leads to higher levels of:
19. Women and men tend to be equally competitive.

20. An athlete with an optimistic explanatory style would explain good events as:                
21. People tend to expect their favorite team to win about 50% of the time, the same as expected for a non-favored team.

22. Which of the following theories on the power of imagery states that mentally imaging actions and actually engaging in these actions involve the same neurophysiological processes?
23. Which of the following senses is especially important when using imagery?
24. Focusing on past mistakes and future events can both interrupt present performance.

25. Which group likely would be the most effective at modeling pro- social behavior for a youth baseball team?
26. Which theory of aggression considers aggressive behavior to result from a combination of situational and individual factors?
27. Within a given sport, female athletes tend to be more aggressive than male athletes.

28. Compared to male soccer players, researchers reported that female players were more likely to be punished for aggressive behaviors, possible due to:

29. Viewing female athletes in led high school and college women to feel jealous and to lower self-evaluations of their own bodies.
30. Stereotypes allow people to make rapid judgments about people and situations.

31. Having coaches that vocally support their athletes can reduce the negative effects of stereotypes on academic work.

32. Believing that most individuals could be trained to be leaders is most consistent with which leader’s hip theory?
33. Which of the following behaviors is a consideration behavior?
34. A coach tells a player she is pleased with her behavior while avoiding eye contact and shaking her head. This mixed message could be labeled a  error.
35. In the model of coaching efficacy, a coach’s ability to build team cohesion is an aspect of which dimension?
36. Research suggesting that the effectiveness of a coach ebbs and flows over time is consistent with which interactional theory?
37. Information conveyed through posture, gestures, body position, etc is called  communication.
38. In the multidimensional model, the players ideal coaching style would be classified as behavior.
39. According to life-cycle approaches to leadership, coaches should adapt their leadership style to the characteristics of the team they are coaching.

40. Coaches should avoid criticism at all costs, in order to create a more positive team environment.

41. Training the nonverbal behavior of coacher is much harder than training verbal behavior because it is often done unintentionally.

42. Examining the coaching style of John Wooden, about 50% of his communication with players was:
43. Psychological skills training may help reduce injuries via a reduction in:

44. How is team stability related to the cohesion-performance link?
45. Athletes with high scores on a measure of experiences higher depression rates than others.
46. Symptoms of burnout include exhaustion, low personal satisfaction, and:
47. Utilizing a psychological or verbal prime can impact cohesion and completing tasks.

48. A team cohesion questionnaire is an indirect measurement tool.
49. The benefit of coaching effectiveness training is primarily restricted to professional sports.

50. A college student athlete with a stressful academic course load is at higher risk of developing a physical injury than a peer with a less stressful course load.

51. Teams that require more interaction and coordination tend to display higher levels of cohesion.

52. Which drug classification would alcohol and tobacco fall under?
53. Lance Armstrong was banned from cycling after admitting to taking substance that increased the production of red blood cells, and therefore the flow of oxygen to the muscles. Which substance causes this effect?
54. If a coach suspects that a player on her team is showing signs of an eating disorder, they should first:
55. Which USOC agency is having the largest sexual assault charges against one of their medical doctors?
56. What did research find when they asked students to characterize “Bill”, the steroid-using sprinter, and “Jeff”, the Adderall-using test- taker?
57. A diuretic used to dilute urine in order to pass a drug test is an example of a masking agent.