Applied Sport Psychology Test Preparation
Course Introduction
Applied Sport Psychology explores the practical application of psychological principles and techniques to enhance athletic performance, motivation, and well-being. The course examines key topics such as goal setting, mental imagery, arousal regulation, self-talk, confidence building, and team dynamics. Students will analyze case studies, engage in experiential activities, and develop strategies for addressing common psychological challenges faced by athletes and teams. Emphasis is placed on ethical practice and evidence-based interventions, equipping students with the skills to work effectively with athletes, coaches, and sports organizations.
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Sport and Exercise Psychology A Canadian Perspective 3rd Edition by Peter Crocker
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Chapter 1: Introducing Sport and Exercise Psychology
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Q1) Regulatory bodies are likely to become more diligent in monitoring the use of the title sport psychologist as well as the practices of sport psychology consultants. This is an example of which probable future trend of sport psychology over the next 20 years?
A) tension between academic and applied sport psychology
B) increased research and teaching opportunities
C) increased specialization and diversification
D) ethics and competencies
E) interdepartmental collaboration in teaching, research, and practice
Answer: D
Q2) Seligman and others in the positive psychology movement criticized psychology for doing what?
A) for focusing too much on the human side of strength
B) for focusing too much on personal growth
C) for focusing too much on mental illness and repair
D) for focusing too much on well being
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Personality in Sport and Exercise
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Q1) Contrast the key personality perspectives of the humanist and social learning perspectives.
Answer: The humanistic approach emphasizes positive growth and self-fulfillment. It has a person-centred perspective that includes personal responsibility, human growth, personal striving, and dignity. Beliefs, values, and self-actualization are concepts important to this approach. Social learning refers to behaviour changes that occur due to experiences. The theory focuses on how situations and individuals influence each other. People will adopt behaviours that are favourable to them. People choose to become active agents in shaping their behaviours.
Q2) Research on passion and performance in sport indicates that
A) only harmonious sport is related to performance.
B) only obsessive passion is related to performance.
C) both harmonious and obsessive passion are positively related to performance.
D) that harmonious passion is positive related to performance and obsessive passion is negatively related to performance.
E) there is no relationship between passion and performance.
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Motivation and Behavioural Change
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Q1) The meta-analyses focused on the Theory of Planned Behaviour suggested that
A) attitudes is the weakest correlate of intention.
B) the association between intention and behaviour weakens after one week.
C) intention may predict other health behaviours, but is not a good predictor of physical activity.
D) none of the above
Answer: D
Q2) For the more experienced athlete, the most influential source of self-efficacy is
A) vicarious experiences
B) physiological/affective states
C) past performance accomplishments
D) social persuasion
Answer: C
Q3) Using criticism as a means of trying to change an athlete's behaviour is consistent with Cognitive Approaches to understanding motivation.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Stress, Emotion, and Coping in Sport and Exercise
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Q1) Which of the following statements is incorrect?
A) There is limited research examining cultural influences on stress and coping in sport.
B) Cross-cultural comparisons of stress and coping have shown differences between athletes' stressor appraisals and coping during competition.
C) Prayer is an important cultural coping strategy for some athletes.
D) Culture should not impact the stress and coping process because stressor appraisals depend on individual cognitive appraisals of a situation.
Q2) It seems clear that all stress is negative and to be avoided.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A football player who does not know how she will perform in the championship game will likely experience which type of emotion according to Lazarus' core relational themes?
A) anger
B) fright
C) guilt
D) shame
E) anxiety
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Chapter 5: Anxiety in Sport and Exercise
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Q1) Identify three common myths about anxiety in sport and physical activity and provide a key fact that disputes each one.
Q2) Athletes use which of the following coping skills to manage anxiety symptoms?
A) relaxation
B) self-talk
C) cognitive restructuring
D) imagery
E) all of the above
Q3) Which of the following factors would increase the risk of an athlete choking?
A) high self-confidence
B) presence of an audience
C) dangerous environmental conditions
D) being female
E) being a novice athlete
Q4) Unidimensional theories of arousal and anxiety, such as the Drive Theory and Inverted-U Theory, do a good job of describing how cognitive anxiety affects performance.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Identify five categories of personal sources of anxiety.
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Chapter 6: Aggression and Moral Behaviour in Sport
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Q1) A hockey player who is designated to the specific role as the "enforcer" would be explained by which factor that influences aggression?
A) personal
B) situational
C) group
D) interactional
E) social
Q2) Which of the following is a personal factor that influences aggression?
A) competitive situations
B) frequency of competition
C) home-field advantage
D) point differentials
E) gender
Q3) Identify which type of passion may lead to uncontrollable urges to engage in an activity.
A) obsessive passion
B) compulsive passion
C) harmonious passion
D) fixated passion
E) mastery passion
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Chapter 7: Sport Psychology Interventions
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Q1) An athlete who is practising imagining an accurate badminton serve is using which function of the analytic model of imagery?
A) motivational general-mastery
B) motivational specific
C) motivational general-arousal
D) cognitive specific
Q2) A sport psychology consultant who spends an entire session with athletes informing them of the benefits of goal setting is using which phase of psychological skills training?
A) education
B) practice
C) acquisition
D) awareness
Q3) Why is it important to encourage athletes to use positive self-talk?
Q4) Attentional cues are a set sequence of thoughts and actions that are done before the performance of key skills.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Explain why goal setting is effective.
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Chapter 8: Leadership in Sport and Exercise
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Q1) Laissez-faire leadership is a style of leadership that is characterized by
A) persistence, engagement, and consideration.
B) indifference, absence, and a hesitancy to make any substantive decisions.
C) an achievement orientation.
D) a relatedness supportive leadership style.
E) setting of highly structured goals for those being led.
Q2) Identify the five personality traits proposed in the Five-Factor Model (FFM) and describe how they are associated with leader emergence and effectiveness.
Q3) A coach whose behaviour is characterized by a concern for the emotional, esteem, and informational needs of individual athletes is demonstrating which leadership behaviour?
A) social support
B) positive feedback
C) autocratic style
D) training and instruction
E) laissez-faire
Q4) Explain how personal trainers can display the four dimensions of transformational leadership in their interactions with clients.
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Chapter 9: Group Cohesion in Sport and Exercise
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Q1) To make decisions using the principle of equal participation and equal power describes majority rule.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Describe the conceptual model of group cohesion.
Q3) What is the dynamic process that is reflected in the tendency for a group to stick together and remain united in the pursuit of its instrumental objectives and/or for the satisfaction of the members' affective needs known as?
A) group dynamics
B) assembly effect
C) cohesion
D) team building
E) collective efficacy
Q4) Hazing is a good technique for increasing cohesion within a sport team.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Identify and briefly describe the four key characteristics of team cohesion as defined by Carron and Eys (2012).
Q6) Why is cohesion often reported to be the most important small group variable?
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Chapter 10: Youth Involvement and Positive Development in Sport
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Q1) Which of the following would not be considered a positive physical health outcome of youth sport?
A) cardiovascular fitness
B) muscular strength
C) decreased risk of cancer
D) increased happiness
E) weight control
Q2) Overall, too much emphasis on deliberate play activities may lead to health problems or withdrawal.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Children's decisions to engage in particular activities, their intensity of effort expended in these activities, and their actual performance levels are often influenced by parental ________.
A) support
B) modelling
C) companionship
D) expectations
E) none of the above
Q4) Describe the three objectives of youth sport.
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Chapter 11: Coaching Psychology
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Q1) Which one of the following is a consequence of the multidimensional model of leadership?
A) athlete performance
B) leader characteristics
C) situational characteristics
D) athlete characteristics
E) preferred actual behaviour
Q2) What aspect of coaching is still in its early form of development and is hindered by a lack of clarity with its definition?
A) 3 + 1 Cs model
B) Co-orientation
C) Coaching Efficacy
D) Athlete-Centred Coaching
E) International Council of Coach Education mission statement
Q3) Canada, Australia, and the U.K. all have a government-based national coaching organizations, while the United States does not.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Explain the five coaching principles of youth-sport coaches.
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Chapter 12: Aging and Involvement in Sport and Physical Activity
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Q1) When working with older athletes, which of the following sport psychology concepts are applicable?
A) Training programs and interventions should reflect the uniqueness of competition at this level.
B) Athlete's experiences and knowledge should be acknowledged.
C) One's attitudes about older adults should be assessed for bias (e.g., stereotypes).
D) Consultants should consider ways in which they can access athlete's knowledge.
E) all of the above
Q2) Older adults may be limiting their involvement in physical activity because of internalized negative stereotypes about their group.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Getting older involves the inevitable loss of the ability to function in society.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Distinguish between compensation theory and selective maintenance theory.
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Chapter 13: Physical Activity and Mental Health
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Q1) Perhaps one of the key challenges in thinking about using exercise to promote mental health is
A) not knowing for sure what the mechanisms are.
B) understanding how to best help people get active and stay active.
C) not knowing for sure what the dosage is.
D) the lack of evidence.
Q2) In terms of explaining why exercise improves mental health, one idea is that as a person engages in exercise and experiences fitness gains or bodily changes
A) self-efficacy remains the same but self-esteem increases.
B) personality changes and results in enhanced mood.
C) self-awareness increases.
D) self-efficacy for exercise increases, and the person experiences a feeling of accomplishment.
Q3) Physical activity should have a greater effect on physical self components compared to other domains like social or global self-esteem.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Discuss the prevalence of mental health problems in Canada and internationally.
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Chapter 14: Body Image in Sport and Exercise
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Q1) Lexi feels anxious when she watches herself exercising in a mirror. Her response is an indication of the ________ dimension of her body image.
A) cognitive
B) affective
C) perceptual
D) behavioural
Q2) People suffering from body dysmorphic disorder can be diagnosed with which of the following eating disorders?
A) anorexia nervosa
B) bulimia nervosa
C) binge eating disorder
D) A and B
E) all of the above
Q3) Based on Higgins' self-discrepancy theory, people compare themselves to internalized standards self-guides. There are two types of self-guides. The degree to which people's self-view of themselves differ from these self-guides can result in two types of self-discrepancies. What are they and provide an example for each.
Q4) What is the definition of normative discontent?
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Chapter 15: Physical Activity Interventions
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Q1) The intent of treatment research is to
A) develop a successful physical activity intervention.
B) evaluate whether interventions positively affect exercise behaviour. C) develop successful exercise outcomes.
D) change an individual's life experience in some way through the use of physical activity.
Q2) According to the Transtheoretical model, when an individual is in the preparation stage of behavioural change they
A) do not intend to make a behavioural change.
B) intend to make a change within six months.
C) intend to make a change within the next month.
D) plan on maintaining a new behaviour.
Q3) There is only one type of self-efficacy that can be influenced in the exercise setting. A)True B)False
Q4) Why is it important to read research on exercise interventions very carefully? Why must you take note of the subjects' characteristics, location of research, and related factors?
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