Sport Psych Quiz 2

Front 1

What can be said about accounting for the causes of anxiety through the classical conditioning model?

Back 1

It is predicated on the principle of classical conditioning.

Front 2

Marika is a rather good youth athlete, but is prone to poor performance in critical game situations. One of her problems is anxiety, also known as what?

Back 2

Conditioned fear

Front 3

Implosive therapy makes use of the majority of the features of flooding but also incorporates what into its procedures?

Back 3

fear-eliciting images

Front 4

Flooding and implosive therapy are examples of which classical conditioning perspective?

Back 4

aversive conditioning

Front 5

What might be a salient source of anxiety in a basketball player undergoing systematic desensitization?

Back 5

self doubt and poor performance

Front 6

WRT treating anxiety, what are the goals of extinction and of counter-conditioning?

Back 6

reduce or eliminate fear or anxiety

Front 7

What is the Biofeedback Society of America now called?

Back 7

Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback

Front 8

Electromyographical feedback makes use of what?

Back 8

using electrodes to sense the degree of muscle contraction to reduce muscle tension

Front 9

What are the three areas in sport psychology where biofeedback has been used?

Back 9

stress management for athletes, rehabilitation of sport-related injuries, performance enhancing

Front 10

What can be said about biofeedback certification institute of america? (BCIA)

Back 10

they set the standard for people who can provide biofeedback services

Front 11

Hortense has found that she can avoid the wrath of her coach if she does well at all times. As a consequence, she generally performs well. This reaction on Hortense's part in the language of the behaviorally-oriented psychologist, is said to be the result of what?

Back 11

operant learning

Front 12

Positive and negative reinforcement operate to ________ behavior whereas omission training and punishment can be effected by ______ behavior

Back 12

stimulate / ???

Front 13

What can be said about the use of punishment in sport?

Back 13

It can be both positive and negative to players

Front 14

If a coach steeped in behavioral procedures, taught the various elements of a skill such as blocking in football or turning the double play in baseball in a sequential manner. The coach would be doing what?

Back 14

effective behavioral coaching

Front 15

What can be said about the use of token systems in sport

Back 15

It is a successful way to modify behavior and has the advantage of not physically satiating subject

Front 16

What can be said about studies evaluating the success of token systems within the sporting context.

Back 16

Athletes increased their performance greatly

Front 17

Katie, a 10 year old softball player, is trying to learn the intricacies of pitching fast pitch softballs. Her coach would be wise to use what?

Back 17

Distributed practice

Front 18

What is the optimal duration for teaching new sport skills, that is, should practice be massed or distributed and in what mix?

Back 18

Somewhere inbetween too little rest and too much rest is optimal for teaching sport skills

Front 19

Consider the following, "Sport Psychology has generated a paucity of behavioral studies that link performance outcomes with actual sport behaviors."

Back 19

TRUE

Front 20

Martins, Vause, & Schwartzman looked at the sport psychology literature from 1972 through 2002 and found how many behaviorally based studies that met their stringent criteria for inclusion?

Back 20

15

Front 21

What can be said about the study of neuropsychological mechanisms in sport?

Back 21

They are vital to the athletic proficiency in sport

Front 22

What does visuomotor behavior involve?

Back 22

a covert activity whereby a person experiences sensory-motor sensations that reintegrate reality experiences.

Front 23

Visuomotor behavioral rehearsal is most commonly associated with which person?

Back 23

Richard Suinn

Front 24

Positive self-talk, positive images, and dreams about performance characterize whom?

Back 24

Zinger, Bunker, and Williams

Front 25

Bunker and Owens report a case history of a golfer who was instructed to transfer a paper clip from a front to rear pocket every time she had a negative thought during a round of golf. The athlete in question shot 84 and had 87 paper clips to her back pocket after 18 holes. Bunker and Owens were asking the golfer to engage in what?

Back 25

Thought Stoppage

Front 26

What is Schwartz's opinion about hypnosis and biofeedback?

Back 26

They are incompatible when paired together

Front 27

What can be said about the studies of the efficacy of yoga, zen, and transcendental meditation in performance enhancement among athletes?

Back 27

it relaxes, concentrates and relieves stress in athletes

Front 28

Sol, a track athlete, is attempting to make use of the sun as a psych-up strategy. This is known as what?

Back 28

a strategy intended to create a state of energy and mental readiness that give a psychological advantage

Front 29

What can be said about the use of music as a psych-up strategy?

Back 29

It depends on the athlete, to either psych-up or have no effect

Front 30

Sherry is prone to say things to herself when she competes that are not conductive to performance excellence. One of her faulty thinking patterns is "Im not really that good. It was a lucky shot." this is an example of wat?

Back 30

pep talks

Front 31

Frankie tends to think he competes in terms of words such as "always" and "never". Most things in life are not so dichotomous, and frankie is engaging in what?

Back 31

Energizing verbal cues

Front 32

The cortex of the brain has a rough appearance and gets it name from the latin word for what?

Back 32

bark

Front 33

when low trait anxious children are compared with high trait anxious ones, we find what about the high anxiety group?

Back 33

they will preform worse than kids with low anxiety

Front 34

Holly is described by her peers as a very uptight person, and she has trouble competing because of her anxieties and fears. In the language of the sport psychologist, Holly would be experiencing high levels of what kind of anxiety?

Back 34

precompetitive state anxiety

Front 35

The individualized zones of optimal functioning (IZOF) is Hanin's variant of what?

Back 35

the u-hypothesis of intraindividual response anxiety

Front 36

Hardy's catastrophe theory is an alternative to the inverted-u hypothesis that stresses what?

Back 36

somantic anxiety

Front 37

The SCAT is a measure of what kind of anxiety?

Back 37

trait anxiety