Emerging Adulthood
Adulthood
Older Adulthood
Expertise in Sport
Studies & Evaluating Literature
Psychology Wild Card
True Wild Card
200
What is neuroplasticity?
The brain's ability to change its structure and function in response to experiences, learning, and injury
200
What is one example of a basic emotion?
Anger, fear, disgust, sadness, happiness, etc.
Biologically rooted emotions
200
What age period did we describe as being "older adulthood" in class?
Approximately 60 and beyond
200
What was one of two of the key principles that formed Dr. Gordin's practice on working with elite golfers?
The athlete must trust you implicitly
The athlete must believe that you have something useful to give them in order to improve their performance
200
What question was posed by Gayman et al., 2017?
Is sport good for older adults?
200
What does the "N" stand for in CANOE (or OCEAN) -- referring to the five personality traits of the "Big Five?"
Neuroticism
(Tendency to experience negative emotions, irritability, and/or be prone to mood swings)
200
How many elements are on the periodic table?
118
400
In developing habitual behavior, what two elements of mental association often lead to an activation of impulse?
Cue and response
400
I am feeling bad because "I am an unfit person."
This is likely an example of which negatively-valanced self-conscious emotions?
Shame
(Implies a perceived or feared loss of social status and/or a failure to meet internalized standards -- deeply rooted in evaluation)
400
Give me one "positive" (increased) correlate and one "negative" (decreased) correlate with age, according to the exercise-aging cycle.
Positive: Heart disease, blood pressure, aches and pains, fat levels, feeling old, acting "ones age", and mental health issues (e.g., depression)
Negative: Exercise, physical activity, self-esteem, physical abilities, strength, and energy
400
Is a professional sports team a team of experts or an expert team? Justify your answer
The study of the individual may not tell the whole story: More research needs to be conducted on coordination within the team unit
400
Which study discussed in lecture asked female expert college tennis players and novice players: "What were you thinking about while playing that point?"
McPherson (1999)
Main takeaway?
400
Who authored Indications for Child Analysis in the mid 1900s?
Hint: She is the daughter of another famous psychologist.
Anna Freud
400
What is the only even prime number?
2
600
At approximately what age does the prefrontal cortex finish developing?
Approximately at 25 years old.
600
What is another term for physical self-concept?
Body image
600
Which disease is associated with neurofibrillary tangles and neuritic plaques?
Alzheimer's Disease
600
Do elite athletes seem to have domain-general or domain-specific cognitive advantages?
Domain-specific
600
What were the two main constructs studied in McEwan, 2020?
Teamwork and emergent states
600
The late Israeli-American psychologist Daniel Kahneman is often considered one of the founders of behavioral economics. Although he had won a Nobel Prize a decade earlier, his fame ascended when he released Thinking Fast and Slow in 2011 which is fundamentally about _____-_______ theories of cognition.
duel-process
600
Which Disney film was the first full-length featured animated film?
Snow White
800
In terms of members of a company's organizational chart, we talked about the prefrontal cortex as the CEO. What did we refer to as the COO?
The motor cortex
800
Pride resulting from one's ability or perceptions or superiority is considered ______ pride.
hubristic
(as opposed to authentic)
800
What did we describe as the capacity to undertake the physical tasks of daily life with success and with a given level of ease?
Physiological Functional Capacity (PFC)
800
What seem to be the two advantages in terms of cognitive adaptations that experts have following practice relative to novices?
Adaptations to mental representations
Adaptations to memory
800
What was the main finding in Hoffman et al., 2011?
Exercise has benefits for depression, but the long-term benefits depend on sticking with it.
800
The BDI is a depression inventory (scale) named for an American psychiatrist with what surname?
Hint: Despite their similar names, this psychologist is not related to the singer of the 90s indie hit "Loser."
Beck
800
Which 1977 album is the best-selling album of all time worldwide?
Michael Jackson's Thriller
1000
What are three of the six positive correlates between exercise and brain activity we discussed in class?
1. Increased learning and mental focus
2. Decreased stress
3. Decreased anxiety and depression
4. Decreased symptoms of attention deficit
5. Decreased compulsive behaviors
6. Decreased negative effects of aging
1000
Which theoretical approach to conceptualizing peers, sport and exercise, and social dynamics in adulthood is primarily characterized by the need for self-efficacy?
Social Cognitive Theory
(Bandura)
1000
Give me 3 of the 9 ways that exercise keeps you going and fights aging
1. It strengthens the cardiovascular system
2. It regulates fuel
3. It reduces obesity
4. It elevates your stress threshold
5. It lifts your mood
6. It boosts the immune system
7. It fortifies the bones
8. It boosts motivation
9. It fosters neuroplasticity
1000
Based on the studies reviewed in class, what are the four cognitive advantages experts seem to have?
Hint: One of them is "Attention"
Attention
Perception
Information Encoding
Information Retrieval
1000
Which study asked skilled and recreational golfers to think aloud as they made short and long putts?
Arsal et al. (2016)
Main takeaway?
1000
What two quantitative things do "D" and "S" stand for in the American Psychiatric Association's DSM-5?
Diagnostic and Statistical
1000
Winning the award in 2001, which film was the first to win the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature?
Shrek