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History of sports psych Flashcards

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What was the first sports psychology study? (Also first social psychology study)

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Norman Triplett (1898)
Cyclists perform better when in a group due to the presence of the audience.
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Th presence of an audience enhancing a performance is called___________.

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Social Facilitation

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Does social facilitation always enhance performance?

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No. It can also cause anxiety leading to decreased performance.

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Who initially introduced the concept of social facilitation?

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Allport 1924

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What affects whether an audience helps or hinders performance?

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Task complexity - attentional focus is narrowed with an audience which hinders performance in complex tasks.

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Who was the first Sports Psychologist (Founding Father of sports psych in North America?

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Coleman Roberts Griffith (1893-1966)

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What did Coleman Griffiths publish?

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Psychology of Coaching 1926

Psychology of Athletics 1928

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Who was the founder of sports psychology in Europe?

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Pierre de Coubertin (founder of modern Olympic games)

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When and where was the first international congress on sports psychology held?

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1913, Lausanne Switzerland

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What event interrupted the development of sports psychology?

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World War 1

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Who established a sports psychology lab and when?

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Robert Werner Schulte 1920 in Berlin

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What does ISSP stand for?

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International Society of Sports Psychology

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When and where was the ISSP established?

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Rome 1965

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What did Flemming (1934) study?

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Personality
84 adolescent girls either athletic or non athletic assessed for personality traits.
Findings indicated personality not connected to athletic involvement

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What did Carter & Shannon (1940) study?

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Personality Psychology
Compared 200 boys half enrolled in sport and other half not.
Found involvement correlated with higher levels of extraverson.

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What did Hastorf & Cantril (1954) study?

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Spectator psychology

Opposing fans presented thoughts on teams. Their accounts were dissimilar indicating a self-serving bias.

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When did sports psychology develop as a discipline?

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1970s to 1999

18
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Describe the trend shift in research interests

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Trait approach abandoned for State approach (more focus on confidence and anxiety and less on personality)

19
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Specialised journals started in 1970s

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International Journal of Sport Psychology (1970)
Journal of Sport Psychology (1979)
The Sport Psychologist (1986)
Journal of Applied Sport Psychology (1989)

20
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When did exercise psychology emerge as a field?

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1988 - with the change of name to Journal of Sport & EXERCISE psychology

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What did Furley, 2019 study?

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Evolutionary sport psychology
Competition in sport was invented for adaptive value.
Sport as a by product of adaptations including motivational drive to compete for status and mates

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Created ‘Division of Sport and Exercise’ as one of 10 main divisions of the British Psychological Society in 2004

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Alan Baddeley

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Published ‘Group Dynamics in Sport’ and dominated this area of research for decades

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Albert (Bert) Carron (1941-2014)

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Published highest selling book worldwide on sport and exercise psychology. Founding editor of The Sport Psychologist.

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Published influential book ‘Understanding psychological preparation for sport’ in 1996. Research on state approach (anxiety)

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Published first book devoted entirely to exercise psychology in 1991, founded the journal Psychology of Sport and Exercise in 2000

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Stuart Biddle

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Started first graduate program in sport psychology in US. Organized the Research Conference on Women in Sport 1972. First woman President of NASPSPA (1974-1975)

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Dorothy Harris (1931-1991)

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Published ‘Psychological Dynamics of Sport and Exercise’. Editor-in-chief of JSEP (1986–1990) and former president of NASPSPA

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Diane Gill

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President of NASPSPA (2007-2009) and President of the National Academy of Kinesiology (2000-2002). Dominated research on confidence in sport.

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Deborah Feltz

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Former President of the Association for the Advancement of Applied Sport Psychology. Research on motivational processes in sport and exercise.

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Editor-in-chief of JSEP (1995–1997). Published influential book “advances in sport psychology” (1992, 2002, 2011, 2021)

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Thelma Horn

32
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When was the Association of Applied Sport Psychology founded?

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