Introduction
A sport psychologist wants to conduct a new study on how average male and female children respond to losing a soccer game. Which research design is the most appropriate, considering ethical and practical concerns?
Survey
An athlete who can judge how she is currently feeling and also judge the feelings of her opponent would score high on:
Emotional Intelligene
number 5
Stability
What is the definition of Motivation?
The direction and intensity of one's effort
TRUE OR FALSE
False.
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?
A collection of values, attitudes, emotions, and cognitions that influence the way in which an individual approaches, responds to, and appraises demanding events to consistently achieve his or her goals is referred to as...
Mental Toughness
What attribution style is considered the most functional type of attribution for an athlete to make following a poor performance?
Internal, controllable, and unstable
Why do youth sports involve modifications of rules or equipment?
Answers May Vary
Describe how an individual with an optimistic explanatory style would explain a team's victory. What about a team's defeat?
Critical thinking questions
Answers will vary
Who is considered the father of American sport psychology?
Coleman Griffith... Developed the first class and laboratory dedicated to sports psych, an active practitioner and researcher.
Which of the personality theories is widely used in sport psychology?
Social Learning or Trait... Trait
What are the 3 skills athletes can practice to build self-confidence and develop more constructive thought patterns?
Define social loafing... Why is it considered to be negative?
**Diffusion of Responsibility... Attributed beyond sports.
If increasing self-efficacy is important for increasing performance, should coaches ever be critical of their players? (Is there a limit to increasing an athlete’s self-efficacy?)
Critical thinking... Answers will vary... However, a good reminder is that self-efficacy refers to an individual's belief in his or her capacity to execute behaviors necessary to produce specific performance attainments
A researcher wants to know if the temperature in the room will affect number of baskets made by basketball players. What would be the independent and dependent variables in this scenario?
The ________ hypothesis states that people with certain personalities gravitate toward athletics in general or towards specific sports.
Selection
Accepting credit for success, but blaming failure on external factors is called...
Self-serving attribution
Why is it important to create different types of environments for different people?
People are motivated by different things
If 300 successful athletes take a personality test, and 70% of the athletes score high on resilience, we can assume that resilience may be ____ athletic success.
Match the sport psychology focus during each phase
-The early years -Applying information
-The contemporary years -Academic and learning focus
-The formative years -Continual growth and recognition in new organizations
Early to academic
Formative to applied
Contemporary to growth and inclusion
How athletes cope with _____ may be what connects personality to athletic performance.
Stressors
An examination of media coverage of the 2010 Olympic Games shows that commentators are more likely to attribute American athletes' success to ________ than they were for non-American athletes.
Commitment and intelligence
Which type of extrinsic reward tends to lead to an increase in intrinsic motivation?
verbal praise
What are two ways that sport psychology is similar to other branches of psychology (e.g., social psychology)? What are two ways that sport psychology is different from other branches of psychology?
Critical Thinking... Answers May Vary