Texas State University

PSY 3336

Exam 3

1)Problem- focused coping is best used in situations when the athlete has no control and is mainly dealing with stress level:

2. Autogenetic training is a behavioral arousal-regulating strategy:
3. Coaches can reward and encourage aggressive behavior by giving aggressive athletes more playing time:

4. Athletes that have more task-oriented goals tend to be less aggressive than athletes with ego-oriented goals:

5. Research suggests that openly gay athletes face less criticism and receive more support now than they have in the past:

6. People are always aware when they engage their prejudice or stereotypes:

7. A flashing advertisement on a baseball field can easily be an external distraction to the pitcher:

8. Attention is defined as the ability to focus on relevant information and to ignore irrelevant information:

9. All aggressive acts are physical acts:
10. Within a given sport, being a member of a particular team affects the likelihood of committing aggressive acts:

11. Research suggest that teaching children good sportsmanship can increase moral reasoning skills:

12. Research suggest that when women are given a racial prime, they perform worse on a golf task

13. Fear of living up to a stereotype can lead to lowered performance in academic environment

14. According to social learning theory, children’s views about athletes will tend to be similar to their parents:

15. If an athlete is having difficulty recognizing when they feel stressed, suing relaxation and biofeedback will help them cope with this problem:

16. Making a quick decision about an athlete based on generalizations and incomplete knowledge results in:
17. When might an athlete need emotion-focused coping, rather than problem-focused coping:
18. A tennis player feels high levels of anxiety right before a big match. Her trainer notices that she is keeping her shoulders raised higher than she should- a sign of tension. Which technique would be MOST beneficial for the tennis player to use to combat shoulder tension?
19. Which Strategy involves verbalizing, out loud or in one’s hand, specific thoughts and feelings?
20. The ability to focus on only important factors and not be distracted by irrelevant information is called:

21. What is the difference between hostile and instrumental aggression:
22. The idea that aggression builds to a point before being released (catharsis) is part of which theory of aggression:
23. Which of the following best describes the rioting of fans AFTER a game has already been lost:
24. The most common way to try and reduce unwanted aggression in sports is:
25. Compared to less aggressive NBA players, Teuhel et al. found that more aggressive NBA players:
26. A player that illegally tackles another player before she can score a goal is engaging in:
27. The fact that aggressive acts may actually increase aggression rather than decrease aggression refutes the idea of:
28. Which observation supports the instinct theory of aggression:
29. Prejudice involves harmful or negative                                                              Toward individuals of a particular group:
30. Which Theory posits that individuals learn stereotypes through a conditioning process, via both experience and observation:
31. Social identity theory predicts that discriminating against people in an ‘’out-group’’ increases:
32. When people create impediments to their own success, this is called:
33. Stereotypes can be reduced through:
34. Discrimination involves harmful or negative                                                                       towards individuals of a particular group:
35. Focusing on the execution of a given skill (an ice skater performing a toe loop or a football quarterback throwing a pass) belongs to which dimension of attentional focus: