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Health Psychology Final Exam

Course Introduction

Health Psychology explores the biological, psychological, and social factors that influence health, illness, and healthcare. This course examines how behavior, emotion, and cognition impact physical well-being, the development and management of chronic diseases, health risk behaviors, and the promotion of healthy lifestyles. Students will also study stress and coping mechanisms, patient-provider relationships, and health disparities, gaining insight into interventions and strategies to promote overall health and improve quality of life for individuals and communities.

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Sport Psychology Concepts and Applications 7th Edition by Richard H Cox

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Chapter 1: Foundations of Sport Psychology

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Q1) The following individual is generally referred to as the father of modern sport psychology in North America.

A)Rainer Martens.

B)Robert Singer.

C)Coleman Griffith.

D)Bruce Ogilvie.

Answer: A

Q2) Which term below identifies the process by which one learns to look at the world through multicultural lens?

A)Enculturation.

B)Desensitization.

C)Cultural competence.

D)Acculturation.

Answer: D

Q3) The sometimes disputed father of sport psychology in the Soviet Union was

A)Mikhail Gorbachev.

B)Nikita Khrushchev.

C)Piotr Antonovich Roudik.

D)Avksenty Cezarevich Puni.

Answer: D

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Chapter 2: Personality As a Core Characteristic of the

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Q1) Which of the following is not an inventory designed to measure personality of the athlete?

A)The Athletic Motivation Inventory.

B)The Athlete Personality Inventory.

C)Winning Profile Athletic Instrument.

D)Troutwine Athletic Profile.

Answer: B

Q2) Emotional intelligence

A)Is a personality trait.

B)Is a mental ability to be learned.

C)Is either a personality trait or a mental ability to be learned depending upon the type of instrument used to measure the construct.

D)None of the above.

Answer: C

Q3) Which of the following represents the big five personality traits?

A)Anxiety,extraversion,tough mindedness,independence,and self-control.

B)Neuroticism,intelligence,mental toughness,aggressiveness,and flexibility.

C)Extraversion,neuroticism,mental toughness,openness,and aggressiveness.

D)Neuroticism,extraversion,agreeableness,conscientiousness,and openness.

Answer: D

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Chapter 3: Self-Confidence and Intrinsic Motivation

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Q1) Participatory modeling is linked with which component of Bandura's model of self-efficacy?

A)Successful performance.

B)Vicarious experience.

C)Verbal persuasion.

D)Emotional arousal.

Answer: B

Q2) Which of the following is not related to the other three?

A)Cognitive evaluation theory.

B)Theory of self-determinism.

C)Integrated theory of motivation.

D)Self-actualization theory.

Answer: D

Q3) The process by which an individual comes to see himself as competent is referred to as the

A)Perceived control process.

B)Cognitive restructuring process.

C)Internal monitoring process.

D)Reflective appraisal process.

Answer: D

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Chapter 4: Goal Perspective Theory

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Q1) Which of the following is associated with a mastery climate?

A)Poor performance and mistakes will be punished.

B)Competition between team members is encouraged.

C)Players help each other learn through cooperation.

D)Social comparison.

Q2) Goal involvement.

A)Personality trait.

B)Situation specific response.

C)Task goal orientation.

D)Ego goal orientation.

Q3) Situation specific state measure of how an individual relates to an achievement situation at a specific point in time.

A)Goal involvement.

B)Task goal involvement.

C)Ego goal involvement.

D)All of the above.

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Chapter 5: Youth Sports

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Q1) Which of the following is not an antecedent of sport enjoyment?

A)Perceived competency.

B)Social constraints.

C)Effort expenditure.

D)positive parental involvement.

Q2) Commercial enterprise in which the stated goals are to entertain and to make money.

A)Youth sport model.

B)Professional model.

C)Collegiate model.

D)None of the above.

Q3) Prior to becoming a youth sport head coach,most youth sport head coaches had

A)Coaching experience.

B)Playing experience in the sport.

C)Experience at developing a mastery learning environment.

D)a and b above.

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Chapter 6: Attention and Concentration in Sport and Exercise

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Q1) The _______________ is that people,when under mental load and stress tend to do the very thing that they are attempting not to do.

A)Planned effect.

B)Ironic effect.

C)Unexpected effect.

D)Unwanted effect.

Q2) Which of the following is not a synonym for self-focused or internal attentional focus?

A)Conscious control.

B)Automatic processing.

C)Explicit learning.

D)Declarative knowledge.

Q3) Which of the following is not a synonym for external attentional focus?

A)Implicit learning.

B)Automatic processing.

C)Procedural knowledge.

D)Explicit learning.

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Chapter 7: Anxiety, Stress, and Mood Relationships

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Q1) The mental component of anxiety caused by such things as fear of negative social evaluation,fear of failure,and loss of self-esteem.

A)Somatic anxiety.

B)State anxiety.

C)Distress.

D)Cognitive anxiety.

Q2) Precompetitive _________ __________ anxiety starts relatively high and remains high and stable as the time of the event approaches.

A)Cognitive,trait.

B)Somatic,trait.

C)Cognitive,state.

D)Somatic,state.

Q3) Which of the following is not true regarding drive theory?

A)Increased arousal will elicit the dominant response.

B)Early in learning the dominant response is the incorrect response.

C)Late in learning the dominant response is the correct response.

D)Decreased arousal will elicit the dominant response.

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Chapter 8: Alternatives to Inverted-U Theory

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Q1) Which of the following factors is believed to facilitate the occurrence of the Flow state?

A)Experiencing physical problems and mistakes.

B)Maintaining appropriate attentional focus.

C)Negative mental attitude.

D)Lack of audience response.

Q2) If you take an athlete's performance score,subtract from it the athlete's mean score for repeated observations through the season,and divide by the athlete's standard deviation relative to those repeated observations,you have a/an

A)Z-score.

B)Ipsative z-score.

C)T-score.

D)Raw data score.

Q3) As measured by an anxiety inventory,the objective level of anxiety ranging from low to high.

A)Intensity component of anxiety.

B)Direction component of anxiety.

C)Frequency component of anxiety.

D)Constrained component of anxiety.

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Chapter 9: Coping and Intervention Strategies in Sport

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Q1) ___________________ is a modern meditational approach to controlling the ___________ nervous system.

A)Integrative mind body training,peripheral.

B)Neo-transcendental meditation,autonomic.

C)Integrative mind body training,autonomiC.

D)Mindfulness,parasympathetic.

Q2) The "what" of self-talk describes

A)If it takes place in the practice or competitive environment.

B)If it takes place before,during,or after a competitive event.

C)The kinds of words and phrases used in self-talk.

D)Whether used for purposes of motivation or cognition.

Q3) As used in meditation,the "mantra" is a

A)Ceremonial beverage.

B)Mental device.

C)Process used to disengage from meditation.

D)Meditation leader.

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Chapter 10: Goal Setting in Sport

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Q1) Striving for personal goals that are based upon _____________________ leads to initial effort that is not sustainable.

A)Self-determined motivational regulation.

B)Autonomous motivational regulation.

C)Externally controlled motivational regulation.

D)Task goal orientation regulation.

Q2) Which of the following is not a principle of effective goal setting?

A)Write goals down and regularly monitor progress.

B)Focus upon individual goals and team goals well take care of themselves.

C)Set practice as well as competition goals.

D)Consider personality and individual differences in goal setting.

Q3) Which of the following is a common reason why goal setting fails?

A)Poorly written goal statements.

B)Failure to devise a goal attainment strategy.

C)Failure to monitor performance progress.

D)All of the above.

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Chapter 11: Imagery and Hypnosis in Sport

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Q1) Which of the following is not an important component of preparation of the subject?

A)Subject must be relieved of fears and apprehensions about hypnotism.

B)Subject must have not eaten food in the previous four hours.

C)Subject must have complete trust in the therapist.

D)Subject must be told that they will remain in control at all times.

Q2) Seven point functional equivalence checkpoints for imaged and actual physical performance.

A)ACTABBD.

B)IACAAIF.

C)PETTLEP.

D)None of the above.

Q3) Which of the following does not occur during the hypnotic phase of hypnosis?

A)Subject experiences neutral hypnosis.

B)Subject experiences waking hypnosis.

C)Subject given posthypnotic suggestions.

D)Subject carries out posthypnotic suggestions.

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Chapter 12: Psychological Skills Training

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Q1) Planned psychological skill intervention programs have been shown to be effective in research of the following type.

A)Multiple baseline single subject designs.

B)Experimental designs in which participants were assigned to treatment conditions.

C)Qualitative research designs.

D)All of the above.

Q2) ADHD.

A)Arousal-depression/hypoactive disorder.

B)Anxiety-depression/health disorder.

C)Attention-deficit/hyperactive disorder.

D)None of the above.

Q3) Which of the following is not an example of a psychological skill?

A)Intrinsic motivation.

B)Self-confidence.

C)Arousal control.

D)Progressive relaxation.

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Chapter 13: Aggression and Violence in Sport

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Q1) Which of the following is not a factor linked to increased aggression among athletes?

A)Playing surface in baseball.

B)Frequent competition among teams that are geographically close together.

C)Athletes who are high in ego goal orientation.

D)Absence of fear of retaliation.

Q2) The psychological connection that individuals have with their sport teams.

A)Player identification.

B)Fan identification.

C)Fan violence.

D)Athlete violence.

Q3) Which of the following is/are examples of ways to curtail aggression among athletes?

A)The penalty or punishment that an athlete receives for an act of aggression must be of greater punitive value than the potential reinforcement for committing the act.

B)External stimuli or cues capable of evoking aggression should be removed.

C)Coaches and referees should be encouraged to attend in-service training workshops for dealing with aggression on the part of players.

D)All of the above.

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Chapter 14: Audience and Self-Presentation Effects in Sport

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Q1) Varca further proposed that the effect of an interactive audience upon the visiting team would be manifested in "dysfunctional assertive behavior." In other words the visiting team would

A)Exhibit more hostile aggression.

B)Be whistled for more personal fouls.

C)Play with poise and control.

D)Execute fewer slam dunks.

Q2) The effect of sustained crowd hostility upon a contest leads to

A)Decrement in performance on the part of both home and visiting teams.

B)Decrement in performance on the part of the home team but not the visiting team.

C)Decrement in performance on the part of visiting team.

D)Improved performance on the part of both home and visiting teams.

Q3) Why was sports research involving non-interactive audiences largely abandoned?

A)Couldn't find subjects.

B)There is no such thing as a non-interactive audience.

C)Cannot generalize results to sports involving an interactive audience.

D)None of the above.

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Chapter 15: Team Cohesion in Sport

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Q1) Which of the following is not a determinant of team cohesion?

A)Personal factors.

B)Family background.

C)Team factors.

D)Leadership factors.

Q2) Relative to the direction of the relationship between cohesion and performance,research shows that

A)Social cohesion is irrelevant when it comes to predicting team performance.

B)Task cohesion is irrelevant when it comes to predicting team performance.

C)Team cohesion is increased when a team performs well and has success (halo effect).

D)Team cohesion prior to competition has little effect on the team performing well.

Q3) For teams that are high in ____________,the perception of psychological momentum is likely to be more pronounced.

A)Self-confidence.

B)Social cohesion.

C)Task cohesion.

D)Self-handicapping.

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Chapter 16: Leadership and Communication in Sport

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Q1) Players who enjoy greater propinquity and task dependence on the athletic field are more likely to

A)Get hit with a line drive.

B)Have higher salaries.

C)Enjoy opportunities of leadership,both present and future.

D)Be discriminated against relative to leadership opportunities.

Q2) Which leadership inventory is most closely linked with Chelladurai's multidimensional model of leadership?

A)Least Preferred Co-Worker Scale.

B)Leader Behavior Description Questionnaire.

C)Leadership Scale for Sport.

D)Congruence Leadership Scale.

Q3) Leadership theory in which successful leadership is predicted as a function of the favorableness of the situation and the personality of the leader.

A)Path-goal theory.

B)Fiedler's contingency theory.

C)Life cycle theory.

D)Functional model of leadership.

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Chapter 17: Exercise Psychology

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Q1) Individuals pass through five dynamic stages in adopting healthy long-term exercise behavior.

A)Theory of planned behavior.

B)Social cognitive theory.

C)Transtheoretical model theory.

D)Stage theory of exercise behavior.

Q2) The theory of planned behavior is robust and broad enough to incorporate aspects of all but one of the following theories of exercise behavior.

A)Self-determination theory.

B)Goal orientation theory.

C)Theory of planned behavior.

D)Catastrophe theory.

Q3) The dual-mode hypothesis suggests that aerobic exercise intensity that is above the lactate threshold will be perceived by the exerciser as being A)Pleasant.

B)Appealing.

C)Unbearable.

D)Unpleasant.

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Chapter 18: The Psychology of Athletic Injuries and Career

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Q1) Research has identified three stressors that the athlete must deal with in order to return successfully to competition.Identify the response that does not belong:

A)Physical stressors.

B)Social stressors.

C)Performance stressors.

D)Organizational stresssors.

Q2) Which of the following is not a personal factor related to adherence to injury rehabilitation?

A)Pain tolerance.

B)Tough-mindedness.

C)Ego or goal orientation.

D)Self-motivation.

Q3) Athletes who use __________ and __________ methods of coping with an athletic injury may be expected to suffer from higher levels of negative mood.

A)Adaptive,approach.

B)Maladaptive,approach.

C)Adaptive,avoidance.

D)Maladaptive,avoidance.

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Chapter 19: Drug Abuse in Sport and Exercise

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Q1) Which of the following is not a cognitive technique calculated to combat drug abuse in sport?

A)Teach athletes alternative ways to enhance performance that do not include the use of drugs.

B)The coach shows concern for athletes and sets limits on unacceptable behavior.

C)Coaches must be aware of each athlete's mental status both in and out of the sport environment.

D)Coaches can help athletes by making them feel part of the team by seeking their input on important team decisions.

Q2) Form of short-term overtraining that is a part of normal training for maximum benefit.

A)Training overload.

B)Overtraining.

C)Overreaching.

D)Staleness.

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