EXSS 181 Exam 1!!!
Transactional means....
Intervention can occur with either the person or the enviornment, resulting in many possible intervention options
B= f(P,E)
Behavior is a function of both person and enviornmental factors
Who is the key figure that is considered the "father" of modern sport psychology?
Coleman Griffith
Which of the following is true of coping?
Coping requires a specific effort on the part of the individual
Suggest team building activities so her athletes might feel more socailly connected to each other and to thier coach. What psychological need are you having this coach target with this suggested intervention?
Relatedness
Which of the following is true of Martens' description of competitiveness?
Social evaluation is a key component of competitiveness
A secondary cognitive appraisal is best described by which question?
What can be done about it?
The inverted U hypothesis predicts that:
arousal can be either too low or too high and top performance occurs at a moderate level/point of arousal.
Which of the following was NOT one of the athlete groups identified in the McDonough et al. 2013 article
athletes who generally perceived stressors as an enjoyable experience
You decide that it is important to give the athetes you work with some input into how you set up your team's practice schedules. What psychological need would this behavior most likley satisfy for your athletes?
autonomy
Social- Cognitive theory, which of the following is NOT one of the four factors to utilize when attempting to effectively demonstrate/ model a skill?
behavioral response
potential "choke" scenario
catastrophe theory
The ______ role in sport psychology is charcaterized by helping individuals and teams to improve performance, manage demamds, and enhance well-being.
consulting
Efforts to "manage your feelings about the problem" are ____ coping; while efforts to "try to solve the problem" are _______ coping
emotion-focused/ problem-focused
The type of motivation which is broken up into four seperate types of motivational regulation is _____.
extrinsic motivation
Based on lecture, perceived competence is _______ within an achievement enviornment?
feeling effective at achieving desired outcomes
least motivationally and psychologically adaptive combination of goal orientations
high ego/outcome, low task/mastery
The primary focus of attribution theory is ______
how individuals explain their successes and failures
a collegiate basketball player's motivation went from a LESS to a MORE self-determined form of motivational regulation. What represents her motivational climate?
identified to integrated
This approach to understanding personality is characterized by examining how person and situational factors interact to determine personaity traits and behavior.
interactionist
Within Hollander's Model of Personality, the most basic and least likley part of a personality structure to change is the ________
internal psychological core
The most self-determined form of motivation, according to Self-determined theory is _____ and is characterized by being motivated to perform an activity for its own sake.
intrinsic motivation
Which of the following is NOT a feature of cooperation learning enviornment?
lack of social skills training
The Isoard- Gautheur et al. 2015 article was associated with our larger unit on motivation by
linking achievement goal theory to athlete burnout
Weiss et al. study the advanced student is a _____ model while the same class student is a _____ model.
mastery/coping
create an intervention to alter your students goal involvement during class activities. Based on achievement goal theory, which factor would you have the most direct ability to change?
motivational climate
Which aspect of Social Cognitive Theory is best promoted by checking lead-up skills of participants, breaking difficukt skills into smaller actions, and providing plenty of oppertunity for practice?
motor reproduction
After Jacob's team wins an important fencing tornamnet, his coach decides to take away teh next day's conditioning session to increase the likelihood of future winning. This is best exemplified by.....
negative reinforcement
Information that is obtained about a behavior is
none of the above
why using personality testing for the purpose of athlete selection should be considered inappropriate
not sufficient evidence of the reliability and validity of athletic personality measures for their use, people may respond is socially desirable ways, elements important for athletic performance can be learned.
The Nicolas et al. 2011 article found support for which of the following models?
perceived coaching behaviors - athlete coping behaviors - athlete goal attainment
NOT a direct predictor of state goal involvement according to Achievement Goal Theory
perceived competence
According to the Competence Motivational Model, feedback and reinforcement influence an athlete's state competence motivation through their effects on ______ and _______.
perceived competence, affect/emotion
In general, Drive Theory proposes that the relationship between arousal and performance is linear. In addition, this theory predicts that....
performance of a novel task is best when arousal is low
what type of feedback is now seen as being very important to athlete outcomes?
positive contingent
The TARGET acronym is designed to provide coaches/practitioners stratigies which
promote a task/mastery motivational climate
Which of the following is/are autonomy supportive coaching behaviors?
provide choice within specific limits and avoid controlling behaviors
cooperative learning approach strategies to implement
provide opportunities for your athletes to play multiple positions and maximize oppertunities for your athletes to develop lacrosse skills
many of your athletes are experiencing heightened, maladaptive levels of anxeity/ arousal during your matches. Appropriate guldelines for applying arousal and anxiety knowledge to help athletes you may be working with include
recognizing the signs of increased arousal and anxiety for individuals, developing individuals confidence as a means to cope with and/ or prevent anxiety and arousal, tailoring of coahing and instructional practices to individuals
The choice to avoid competition is best represented by which aspect of the Sport Competition Process Model?
response
Bill attributes his perceived failure to external and unstable factors. Bill could possibly be experiencing which of the following?
self-serving bias
The athletes desire to "see who is best" has gotten out of hand. Based on your knowledge of Competence Motivation Theory, what stage of competence judgement are the majority of your athletes likley experiencing?
social comparison
A relationship between the person and the enviornment that is appraised as taxing or exceeding the reaources of the person and dangers his/her well-being is ______
stress
How extrinsic rewards influence intrinsic motivtion has been addressed by Cognitive Evaluation Theory. Which of the following scenarios will most likely result in a decrease in intrinsic motivation.
the reward is perceived as a means to control behavior
overall points to remember when giving effective demonstartions
they can do as much harm as good, effective demonstrations require thought and planning, theory can aid coahces/ clinnicians in using best practice to demonstrate skills
In Deutsch's classic 1949 study of puzzle solving in college students, which of the following was not found to be true of students in the competitive group?
they communicated openly
An athlete's general level of anxiety that stays relativley stable over time is ____
trait anxiety
independent variables and dependent variables
type of goal / free throw shooting performance
how attribution falls within each dimension from Attribution Theory
unstable, internal, controllable
NOT one of the ways we specifically discussed in lecture to measure these athletes' degree of learning beyond thier final passing skill performance?
visual attention