Chap 1-3 Quiz Questions Flashcards
What are the three roles of a sport and exercise psychologist?
teaching, conducting research, and consulting
You are a professional educational sport psychologist. One of your athletes, Sarah, has lost a lot of weight recently. Sarah confesses that she’s trying to lose some weight so she can run faster and that perhaps things are getting a bit out of control. What should you do?
Refer Sarah to a clinical sport psychologist who can help Sarah work through her problems.
Which of the following is a limitation of scientific knowledge?
It may lack external validity.
What did Franklin Henry contribute to the field of sport and exercise psychology?
He was largely responsible for the field’s scientific development.
Determining causal relationships is the main advantage that conducting studies has over conducting experiments.
False: Experiments, not studies, allow researchers to determine causal relationships.
A sport and exercise psychologist who relies on the results of surveys and self-assessments to understand an athlete’s behavior has what type of orientation?
Cognitive-behavioral: cognitive-behavioral orientation assumes that behavior is determined by the environment and cognition, with thoughts and interpretation playing a significant role.
According to your text, which of the following is a probable future trend in the field of sport and exercise psychology?
More qualitative research will be conducted. Qualitative research methods are receiving more attention, and these methods will likely gain even greater importance as more research is amassed.
Personality consists of:
Personality consists of three levels: a psychological core, typical responses, and role-related behaviors.
Sport and exercise psychology researchers who assume that an athlete’s behavior is determined by personal and situational factors but who do not also focus on the effect of the athlete’s self-knowledge subscribe to the ?
The interactional approach: It focuses on how an athlete’s behavior is determined by personal and situational factors but not on what an athlete understands about herself.
General personality scales predict behavior more reliably than do situation-specific measures.
FALSE: Situation-specific measures predict behavior more reliably than do general personality scales.
The iceberg profile refers to the fact that vigor ratings for more successful athletes typically are above the population mean, whereas their ratings for tension, depression, anger, fatigue, and confusion are below the population means.
TRUE: Typically, vigor ratings for more successful athletes are above the population mean, whereas their ratings for tension, depression, anger, fatigue, and confusion are below the population means.
The model of motivation that is most useful for sport and exercise psychologists is the:
Interactional model: The interactional model is most useful for sport and exercise psychologists because it accounts for participant characteristics and situational variables.
According to the interactional model, participant behavior can be influenced by:
situations, internal traits, and nonmotivational factors.
It is realistic for a sport and exercise psychologist to assume that she can change all motivational factors influencing her participants.
FALSE: It t is not realistic to assume that all motivational factors can be changed.
Although understanding achievement motivation helps determine why some people are motivated to achieve and others are not, it does not help distinguish the motives of high and low achievers.
FALSE: Understanding achievement motivation does help distinguish the motives of high and low achievers.
