Ch 4 Anxiety
ONE result of Weinberg and Hunt's (1976) study of college students with high and low trait anxiety demonstrated that
increased coordination difficulties contributed to inferior performance
Which of the following principles is NOT derived from the psychological studies on competition and cooperation?
People are born either competitive or cooperative.
Dean Smith, former basketball coach at the University of North Carolina, often played his reserves as a unit early in the game. This is an example of emphasizing
role acceptance
The common thread among the definitions of cohesion is that cohesion is made up of what two basic dimensions?
task and social cohesion
The premise of stress inoculation training is to
expose the person to increasing amounts of stress, thereby enhancing the person's immunity to stress
A substantial imbalance between demand and response capability under conditions in which failure has important consequences refers to
stress
Coakley defines competition as
a social process that occurs when rewards are distributed on the basis of comparative performance
According to Christian Buys, there are several negative aspects of group formation. These negative aspects include
conformity
social loafing
deindividuation
Michael Jordan spoke about everyone on the team coming together (cohesion) when they "stepped between the lines." This belief and confidence in one another is known as
collective efficacy
The matching hypothesis refers to
matching the type of anxiety management technique to the specific anxiety problem of each athlete
A highly trait-anxious athlete (compared to a less trait-anxious athlete) would perceive competition as
more threatening and more anxiety producing
The key part of Martens' definition of competition is
social comparison
Which of the following is NOT a type of social support
communication support
A sociogram is
an illustration of affiliation and attraction among team members
The two most widely accepted coping categories are known as
problem-focused coping and emotion-focused coping
A quarterback needs to shift his attentional focus from surveying the field for receivers to delivering a pass. This shift would be from
broad-external to narrow-external
What is ONE of the following characteristic of cooperative games?
They require little equipment or money.
Having all members of an exercise class wear special T-shirts with special logos is a way of enhancing group
distinctiveness
Which of the following was found to be a barrier to cohesion
members struggling for power
Cognitive restructuring attempts to
identify and modify stress-inducing self-statements
What is ONE of the predictions of the Multidimensional anxiety theory
an inverted-U relationship between somatic anxiety and performance
According to Johnson and Johnson, what is ONE characteristics of appropriate competition?
The rules must be clear and fair
The idea that a level of performance is established by a group as acceptable has been called a
norm for productivity
In this exercise, team members work in small groups to produce responses about how an ideal teammate would react to a list of hypothetical but realistic situations. Unacceptable and acceptable behaviors are then discussed and agreed upon by the team as a whole. This exercise is designed to build
positive group norms
In a review of literature investigating the effects of relaxation interventions on performance what is ONE of the findings on and anxiety reduction in elite athletes
over 80% found a reduction in anxiety or an increase in performance