Sport Psych Review Exam With 100%
Correct Answers
Knute Rockne was one of the first: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔To popularize the pep talk, to use
sports psychology in sports. He simplified things, he was passionate and confident and was
instructional.
notre dame football coach
Applied sport psychology primarily focuses on the psychological theories and interventions used
for the purpose of: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔concerned with the psychological factors that
influence participation and performance in sport and exercise, the psychological effects derived
from participation, and theories and interventions that can enhance performance, participation,
and personal growth.
** enhance performance participation and personal growth
Considered the father of sport psychology in North America, what former University of
Illinois professor wrote two books, Psychology of Coaching (1926) and Psychology of
Athletes (1928), and worked with the Chicago Cubs in 1938? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Coleman
Griffith
In the 1960's Bruce Ogilvie and Tom Tutko, two influential sport psychologists, were
criticized for: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔They created the Athletic Motivation Inventory. Sports
are so complex that no inventory can predict performance, let alone one based on trait
personality theory
,In the 1970's, a major emphasis in sport psychology was to: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔advance
the knowledge base through experimental research
The United States Olympic Committee (USOC) requires sport psychology consultants who
work with Olympic athletes to be certified by the: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Association for
Applied Sport Psychology (AASP)
Exercise and health psychology deals with: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔importance of exercise in
reducing risk of disease and all-cause mortality
Which of the following sport psychology organizations was the first to be established? -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔1965 International Society of Sport Psychology (ISSP)
All of the following are future directions in the field of sport psychology, EXCEPT: - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔diversifying research and asking questions like "how can we induce social structural
change in sport and exercise to enhance the psychological and physical well-being of
participants?"
Sport psychologists are now working less with people in different domains such as business,
military, rehab clinics, the Arts, etc. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔false?
Which of the following is the best definition of motor skill learning? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔A
set of internal processes, associated wiht practice or experience, leading to relatively
permanent changes in the capability for skilled movemet behavior
In Fitts and Posner's theory, what is the best description of the phases of motor skill
learning? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔changes in the capability for skilled behavior that are
relatively permanent
, During the cognitive phase of motor skill learning, athletes: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔the coach
or instructor assists the athlete in this process describing the skill's key elemets
develop a motor program
dominant sensory system is vision
development of basic movement patterns
Basic understanding
Declarative knowledge
What is the role of the coach during the cognitive phase of motor skill learning? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔facilitate the athlete's development of a basic movement pattern by clearly
communicating the critical aspects of the skill through verbal instructions and demonstrations
Verbal demonstration
Provide feedback
Which of the following characterizes the associative phase of motor skill learning? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔fewer errors
improvements in speed, accuracy, coordination, and consistency
can devote attnetion to environment
proprioceptive control replace visual
refining motor program
developing capability to identify errors and generate strategies for their correction
(from notes)
-refine the skill
-more specific rules
Correct Answers
Knute Rockne was one of the first: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔To popularize the pep talk, to use
sports psychology in sports. He simplified things, he was passionate and confident and was
instructional.
notre dame football coach
Applied sport psychology primarily focuses on the psychological theories and interventions used
for the purpose of: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔concerned with the psychological factors that
influence participation and performance in sport and exercise, the psychological effects derived
from participation, and theories and interventions that can enhance performance, participation,
and personal growth.
** enhance performance participation and personal growth
Considered the father of sport psychology in North America, what former University of
Illinois professor wrote two books, Psychology of Coaching (1926) and Psychology of
Athletes (1928), and worked with the Chicago Cubs in 1938? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Coleman
Griffith
In the 1960's Bruce Ogilvie and Tom Tutko, two influential sport psychologists, were
criticized for: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔They created the Athletic Motivation Inventory. Sports
are so complex that no inventory can predict performance, let alone one based on trait
personality theory
,In the 1970's, a major emphasis in sport psychology was to: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔advance
the knowledge base through experimental research
The United States Olympic Committee (USOC) requires sport psychology consultants who
work with Olympic athletes to be certified by the: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Association for
Applied Sport Psychology (AASP)
Exercise and health psychology deals with: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔importance of exercise in
reducing risk of disease and all-cause mortality
Which of the following sport psychology organizations was the first to be established? -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔1965 International Society of Sport Psychology (ISSP)
All of the following are future directions in the field of sport psychology, EXCEPT: - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔diversifying research and asking questions like "how can we induce social structural
change in sport and exercise to enhance the psychological and physical well-being of
participants?"
Sport psychologists are now working less with people in different domains such as business,
military, rehab clinics, the Arts, etc. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔false?
Which of the following is the best definition of motor skill learning? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔A
set of internal processes, associated wiht practice or experience, leading to relatively
permanent changes in the capability for skilled movemet behavior
In Fitts and Posner's theory, what is the best description of the phases of motor skill
learning? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔changes in the capability for skilled behavior that are
relatively permanent
, During the cognitive phase of motor skill learning, athletes: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔the coach
or instructor assists the athlete in this process describing the skill's key elemets
develop a motor program
dominant sensory system is vision
development of basic movement patterns
Basic understanding
Declarative knowledge
What is the role of the coach during the cognitive phase of motor skill learning? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔facilitate the athlete's development of a basic movement pattern by clearly
communicating the critical aspects of the skill through verbal instructions and demonstrations
Verbal demonstration
Provide feedback
Which of the following characterizes the associative phase of motor skill learning? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔fewer errors
improvements in speed, accuracy, coordination, and consistency
can devote attnetion to environment
proprioceptive control replace visual
refining motor program
developing capability to identify errors and generate strategies for their correction
(from notes)
-refine the skill
-more specific rules
