Texas State University

PSY 3336

Exam 1

1)One’s personality can be defined as stable by age 3

2. Personality traits are determined by genetics and environment
3. Female athletes have disproportionately more parents who were former athletes when compared to female non-athletes
4. Girls tend to select sports identical to those in which their mothers currently or formerly participated
5. 70% of youth drop out of sport by the time they are 11 years old
6. Both sexes experience similar socialization in the development of attitudes and feeling about becoming and remaining an athlete
7. An athlete can be defined as competitive and non-competitive
8. Success in sport is “90” percent mental
9. Anyone with a degree in sport psychology can use the term sport psychologist
10. Perfectionism is a negative personality trait
11. One of the limitations of experimental methods is that the findings cannot explain or predict behavior
12. Gaining coaches approval of sport psychology intervention is an ethical consideration
13. There have been positive effects in youth sport when parents adhere to a code of ethics
14. The main reason youth drop out of sport is the same reason they play sport
15. In order to achieve external validity, researchers need to perform their experiments in a laboratory setting
16. The field of sport psychology focuses on examining the                                    and

         factors that influence sport performance, performances and exercise behavior.

17. An activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment is defined as  ?

18. A sport psychologist observing practice and assessing situational and personal factors that influence performance quality is identifying

        .

19. There are                                 number of dimensions in the field of sport psychology

20. At what age do most youth athletes drop-out of sport?
21. What is the primary reason youth play sports?
22. In the research article provided                                               was created to understand youth sport participation.
23. MST stands for                                  . Which are interventions used by sport psychologists.
24. In class you completed an activity to assist in identifying your profile of moods scale. This chart creates .
25.                 The effects of the presence of observes on individual performance level.
26. Sport psychologist study personality in an athlete to                                                          .
27. What is an example of a behavioral tendency?
28. Routines help athletes’                                         before and during the event.
29. Of the list below what is not a common characteristic of an elite athlete?
30. Who is the father of sport psychology?
31. The accuracy for predicting an athlete’s future success in sport is only                   %.
32. When looking at personality factors in sport, adults are often used. Those taking the tests are likely those that possessed the traits considered “desirable”. Using adults as the sample population is defined as         ?

33. Comparative appraisal: A process in which children begin comparing themselves with others to determine their own relative status on motor ability; begins at age?

34.                 is the most important determinant of readiness.
35. In class we watched a video that stated                                                     of 10 kids drop out of youth sport.

36.                 is more likely to occur when the athlete is task involved, not ego-involved.
37.                 is a planned strategy for obtaining information and guidance used before a skill is performed?

38. What did Norman Triplett observe when he asked children to wind a string as fast as they could while alone and also in the presence of other children?
39. Fun is composed of                                      very specific individual actions and collective behaviors.

40. Participation trophies create what type of motivation?
41. Olympic development programs in youth sport considered                                                  ?
42. It is one’s                                 of reality rather than reality itself that most directly influences activity choices.
43. An outcome of                                   is that individuals learn to play various social roles to be effective members of society.
44. There are                                 primary factors that influence involvement in sport and physical activity.

45.                 influence continued to be the best predictor of sport involvement.
46. Girls are discouraged from participating in what types of sport?
47. What theory explains, with same-sex siblings, the opposite-sex parent is a more powerful model.