EXPH 1490 FINAL EXAM PRACTICE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
The drive theory for arousal/performance states that: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅As Arousal Increases,
Performance Increases
What is a personality characteristic that is a strong predictor for competitive success? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Self Efficacy
True or False? Role-related behaviors are part of the core and do not change over time - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅False, roles change over time
The ability to bounce back from situations is? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Resilience
True or False? Anxiety is not an issue amongst athletic populations - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅False,
Anxiety is common among athletes
What are two personality characteristics that are strong predictors for competitive success? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Self Confidence and Self Efficacy
Which of the following is not a specific area of study in exercise and sport psychology? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Rehabilitation, Health, Exercise, and Sport Psychology
According to Weiner's Attribution Theory, an individual characteristic demonstrated by a chronic
exerciser is: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Controllability: Whether the attribution is under the individuals
control or controlled by something else
The first experimental research study that directly impacted exercise and sport psychology focused on: -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Human Competitive Nature
One performs a certain task because they enjoy the process and gains pleasure/satisfaction from
participation is a definition of: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Intrinsic Motivation
, The inverted U hypothesis states that: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Performance peaks and then declines as
arousal continues to increase
Exercise can be used to decrease both: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Anxiety and Depression
The process whereby a person concentrates on some features of the environment to the (relative)
exclusion of others - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Attention
The belief that explains how an individual interprets achievement outcomes and how that interpretation
influences future behaviors. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Social Cognitive Theory or Attribution Theory
To promote exercise adherence, one might employ: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Rewards, Goal Setting,
Charting Attendance, Contracts
The initial experience of perceiving and learning information - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Encoding
What is the term for the ability to access information when you need it? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Retrieval
Increases the capacity to perform the skill in a future test situation - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Practice
Variability
Feeling proud of your performance is an example of - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Intrinsic Feedback
the brain and spinal cord, is the major controller of the body's functions - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Central
Nervous System
What states that learning is the greatest when one performs the skill in a variety of ways and/or
contexts rather than one way and/or one context? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Practice Variability
ANSWERS
The drive theory for arousal/performance states that: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅As Arousal Increases,
Performance Increases
What is a personality characteristic that is a strong predictor for competitive success? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Self Efficacy
True or False? Role-related behaviors are part of the core and do not change over time - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅False, roles change over time
The ability to bounce back from situations is? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Resilience
True or False? Anxiety is not an issue amongst athletic populations - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅False,
Anxiety is common among athletes
What are two personality characteristics that are strong predictors for competitive success? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Self Confidence and Self Efficacy
Which of the following is not a specific area of study in exercise and sport psychology? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Rehabilitation, Health, Exercise, and Sport Psychology
According to Weiner's Attribution Theory, an individual characteristic demonstrated by a chronic
exerciser is: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Controllability: Whether the attribution is under the individuals
control or controlled by something else
The first experimental research study that directly impacted exercise and sport psychology focused on: -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Human Competitive Nature
One performs a certain task because they enjoy the process and gains pleasure/satisfaction from
participation is a definition of: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Intrinsic Motivation
, The inverted U hypothesis states that: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Performance peaks and then declines as
arousal continues to increase
Exercise can be used to decrease both: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Anxiety and Depression
The process whereby a person concentrates on some features of the environment to the (relative)
exclusion of others - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Attention
The belief that explains how an individual interprets achievement outcomes and how that interpretation
influences future behaviors. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Social Cognitive Theory or Attribution Theory
To promote exercise adherence, one might employ: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Rewards, Goal Setting,
Charting Attendance, Contracts
The initial experience of perceiving and learning information - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Encoding
What is the term for the ability to access information when you need it? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Retrieval
Increases the capacity to perform the skill in a future test situation - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Practice
Variability
Feeling proud of your performance is an example of - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Intrinsic Feedback
the brain and spinal cord, is the major controller of the body's functions - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Central
Nervous System
What states that learning is the greatest when one performs the skill in a variety of ways and/or
contexts rather than one way and/or one context? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Practice Variability
