Sport Psych. Exam

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Define sport and exercise psychology

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The scientific study of people and their behaviors in sport and exercise activities and practical application of that knowledge

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Clinical sport psychologist

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Licensed, and trained to help athletes with problems such as eating disorders and substance abuse.

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Educational sport psychologist specialist

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Educate and increase awareness of issues such as anxiety management and confidence development

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Theory

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A set of interrelated facts presenting a systematic view of some phenomenon in order to describe explain and predict the future occurrences

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Study

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The investigator observes or assesses with out changing the environment in any way

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Experiment

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The investigator manipulates variables while observing them, then examines how changes in in the one or more variables affect changes in others

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Multicultural training

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Prepares the sport psychologist to counsel athletes from different cultural and racial backgrounds

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The science of coaching

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Focuses on using general scientific principles

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The art of coaching

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Knowing when and how to individualize these general principles

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Psychophysiological orientation

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Examines underlying psychophysiological processes of the brain on terms of primary causes of behavior

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Social psychological orientation

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Social behavior is determined by a complex interaction of the social enviroment and the personal makeup of the athlete or exerciser

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Cognitive behavioral orientation

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Behavior is determined by both the enviroment and thoughts

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Personality

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All the consistent ways in which behavior of one person differs from that of another, especial in social situations

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Self actualization

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Realize capacities and act to become a better and more self fulfilled person

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Psychodynamic theory

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Instinct on a continuum, social learning on the other end of the continuum.

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Id

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Unconscious instinctual core of personality, pleasure seeking

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Ego

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Conscious logical reality oriented aspect of personality

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Superego

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Conscience of the individual

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Social learning theory

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Albert bandura- individual behaves according to how she/he has learned to behave consistent with enviromental constraints

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Maslows hierarchy of needs

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1. Physiological needs food, water, breathe

2. The safety and security needs, fears and anxiety

3. The love and belonging needs

4. The esteem needs

5. Self actualization

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Iceberg profile

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A profile of the elite athlete on six mood states measured by profile of mood states. Vigor is the only state for which elite athletes score well above the population mean causing the profile to resemble an iceberg

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Mental health model

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Developed by morgan, a model proposing that the elite athlete is a mentally healthy individual

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Personal traits

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Dispositions to act in a certain way. Traits are considered stable, enduring, and consistent across a variety of situations. Genetics

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Motivation

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The direction and intensity of one's effort

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Achievement motivation

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Persons effort to master a task, over come obstacles , perform better than others

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Competitiveness

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A disposition to strive for satisfaction when making comparisons with some standards of excellence in the presence of evaluative others

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Attribution theory

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How people explain their successes and failures

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Locus of control

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A psychological construct that refers to peoples beliefs about whether they are personally responsible for what happens to them

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Learned helplessness

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A condition in which people feel that they are not in control of their failures and that failure is inevitable giving up without trying.

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Outcome goal orientation

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Comparing performance with and defeating others

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Mastery task goal orientation

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Comparing performance with personal standards and personal growth improvement

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Outcome goals

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To win to defeat others

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Process goal

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Quality of the movement form technique

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Performance goals

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Quantitative assessment of performance

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Social goal orientation

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Participate because of the sense of belonging

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Arousal

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Intensity dimensions of motovation at a particular moment

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Anxiety

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Negative emotion state characterized by nervousness worry and apprehension in association with the activation or arousal of the body

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State anxiety

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An immediate emotional state that is characterized by fear tension increase in physiological arousal

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Trait anxiety

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Predisposition to perceive certain enviromental situations as threatening and to respond to these situations with increased state anxiety

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Somatic anxiety

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Physical component of anxiety that reflects the perception of such physiological responses as increased heart rate respiration and muscular tension

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Cognitive anxiety

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The mental component of anxiety caused by fear of negative social evaluation

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Stress

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Non specific response of the body to any demand made upon it. The body is under stress either positive of negative

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The stress process

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Potentially stressful event elicits a stress response following an unfavorable appraisal of coping resources

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Drive theory

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A complex theory of learning that predicts a linear relationship between drive and learning or performance.

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The inverted U theory

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Hypothesized relationship between arousal and performance

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Reversal theory

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Personality and arousal proposing that an individuals psychological orientation switches back and forth between the telic(to serious) and paratelic(fun)