Question 1
True or False: In terms of team dynamics, an injury to a player can only affect the team negatively.
What is false?
Which factor was named as the primary cause of exercise and sport injuries?
A. Physical factors
B. Drug factors
C. Social factors
D. Stress factors
What is physical factors?
What is the role of sport psychologists in injury?
A. To cut players who show negative coping skills to injury
B. To highlight which physical movement caused the athlete to get injured
C. Rehabilitation
D. To help healthy players navigate team dynamics after losing a player to injury
What is rehabilitation?
According to the Stress-Injury Model, which of the following best explains how psychological stress can increase the risk of athletic injury?
A. Stress leads to changes in attention and physiology, such as muscle tension and lack of attention, which increases the risk of injury.
B. Stress has no impact on physical performance and only leads to motivation.
C. Stress negatively impacts an athlete’s reaction time.
D. Stress causes the body to ache, and the continuance of a workout causes injury
What is stress leads to changes in attention and physiology, such as muscle tension and lack of attention, which increases the risk of injury?
Which of these is not an identifiable characteristic of an athlete at risk of getting injured?
A. High-stress life
B. Low social support
C. High trait anxiety
D. Low motivation
What is low motivation?