Sports Psych Quiz 1

To which American Psychological Association (APA) division does Exercise & Sport Psychology belong?

47

Who is often credited as the first person to apply psychological principles systematically to improve sport performance?

Coleman Griffith

Performance _________ entails helping a performer improve his/her capability to perform up to his/her potential by helping him/her develop the mindset and mental/emotional skills to improve his/her KSAs or to better execute his/her KSAs.

Enhancement

What is the major difference between exercise and sport psychology?

Exercise psychology has as its major goal positive health outcomes, while sport psychology has as its major goal performance outcomes

According to Zajonc (1965), the presence of audiences always improve athletic performances.

False

Clinical therapy with patients who are athletes is considered a form of sport psychology.

False

Consulting sport psychologists focus on conducting research experiments.

False

Finding happiness and meaning in life always equates with optimal performance.

False

Most historians consider Norman Triplett to be the father of American sport psychology.

False

Performance enhancement indirectly helps the athlete improve or better execute KSAs.

False

Sport psychologists never engage in performance restoration interventions.

False

Sport psychologists only work in the field of performance enhancement.

False

Which of these is not considered one of the four general areas that a would-be performance psychologist should develop competence in?

Kinesiology

Performance involves developing context-specific

Knowledge, skills, and abilities

Coleman Griffith worked with which of the following famous coaches and athletes?

Knute Rockne and Dizzy Dean

The roles of the sport psychologist do not include:

Managing

Applied sport psychologists help athletes consistently perform in the upper ranges of their capabilities and

More throughly enjoy the sport performance process

Which of these factors does not affect sport performance?

None of the above

_______ psychology is the study and application of psychological principles of human performance to help people consistently perform in the upper range of their capabilities and more thoroughly enjoy the performance process.

Performance

Sport psychology is a sub-focus of

Performance Psychology

Which intervention improves the athlete's capability to perform at full capacity?

Performance enhancement

Which of these is the primary goal of sport psychologists?

Performance enhancement

Which intervention indirectly helps the athlete improve or better execute KSAs?

Performance restoration

Performance _________ entails helping a performer remove barriers to allow them to return to performing at an already established level.

Restoration

A(n) __________________ is an observation or assessment that takes places without the researcher changing the environment in any way.

Study

Which of these is not a construct that performance psychology and counseling/clinical psychology share?

Theories of performance excellence

What are the two categories of performance issues?

Those that are considered general life issues and Those that interfere with the development of the necessary KSAs

A player's psychological readiness is considered an athlete factor.

True

According to Hays (2006), performance psychology is helping people learn how to perform better and more consistently in endeavors where excellence counts.

True

According to Wall, Watson, Peiffer, Abbiss, Siegel, and Laursen (2015), dehydration decreases the performance of well-trained cyclists.

True

In the early days, sport psychology was a discipline in physical education departments.

True

Modern psychology, including sport psychology, is dominated by atheistic humanism.

True

Performance domains include athletics, medicine, and law enforcement.

True

Performance entails the development of context-specific knowledge, skills, and abilities over time and then the recollection and use of these KSAs during a discrete performance event.

True

Performance psychologists teach people how to prepare for performance situations and deliver that performance more consistently to the best of their abilities.

True

Performance psychology relies primarily on consulting, teaching, and coaching as interventions.

True

Performance restoration includes mental health resolution.

True

Sport psychologists seek to explain the causes of performance outcomes.

True

The scientific method involves control of conditions.

True

A(n) __________________ is a set of interrelated facts presenting a systematic view of some phenomenon to describe, explain, and predict its future occurrences.

theory