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EXERCISE AND SPORT PSYCHOLOGY EXAM 1 QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS

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EXERCISE AND SPORT PSYCHOLOGY EXAM 1 QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS

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Sports Psychology
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Sports Psychology

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Period 3: Preparation for the future, 1939-1965


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, • Franklin Henry:
– Establishes psychology of physical activity program at Cal Berkley


• Warren Johnson and Arthur Slatter-Hammel:
– Helped create discipline of exercise and sport science
– Assesses precompetitive emotions of athletes


• Continued the unfortunate trend of limited application until…

Dorothy Hazeltine Yates:
– One of the first women to practice both sport psychology and conduct
research

• Consulted w/university boxers, teaching them how to use relaxation and
other skills to manage emotions and enhance performance
– Relaxation-Set Method
– Published data to support her work




SITUATIONAL FACTORS


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• Situational considerations (not just traits!)


- Probability of success (depends on who your competition is)

- Incentive value of success (more satisfying to beat a worthy opponent)

• Tasks that are difficult but attainable (i.e., 50/50), provide high achievers
most incentive for engaging in achievement behavior

• Low achievers see this as a potential to experience shame in losing to an
evenly matched opponent

,Why/how arousal influences performance


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• Increased muscle tension, fatigue, and coordination difficulties

• Reports of stress = soreness, aches, pains

• Inefficient use of energy

• Rock climbers study...




• Changes in attention, concentration, and visual search

• Narrowing of attention
• Shift to dominant attention style
• Attending to inappropriate cues




Period 1: The early years, 1893-1920


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- Norman Triplett
- Social facilitation theory
- "1st sport psychology experiment ever to be performed"
• Runners experiment
- Running in groups =better performance vs solo trial
- Invisible competitive engine?
- "bodily presence of another contestant participating simultaneously in the
race serves to liberate latent energy not ordinarily available" (Triplett, 1898)

, Drive Theory


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ADD textbook def????




Competitive State Anxiety Inventory (CSAI-2)...state anxiety test


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• Item scoring for all items except 14: not at all = 1 point; somewhat = 2
points; moderately so = 3 points; very much so = 4.


• Scoring for item 14: not at all = 4 points; somewhat = 3 points; moderately
so = 2 points; very much so = 1 point.

• The Cognitive State Anxiety subscale includes items 1, 4, 7, 10, 13, 16, 19, 22,
and 25.

• The Somatic State Anxiety subscale includes items 2, 5, 8, 11, 14, 17, 20, 23,
26.

• The Self-Confidence Anxiety subscale includes items 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21,
24, and 27.

• Your scores for each subscale will range from 9 to 36, with 9 indicating
low anxiety or confidence and 36 indicating high anxiety or confidence

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