Sport and Exercise Science Exam Preparation
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Course Introduction
Sport and Exercise Science explores the scientific principles underpinning physical activity, exercise, and athletic performance. This course covers areas such as human anatomy, physiology, biomechanics, nutrition, and psychology as they relate to sport and exercise contexts. Students will learn how the body responds and adapts to physical activity, how to optimize performance, reduce injury risk, and promote lifelong health and wellness. Practical and theoretical knowledge gained in this discipline prepares students for a variety of roles in health, fitness, rehabilitation, coaching, and sports industries.
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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) Bargaining of privileges for sexual favor that goes from male authority figure towards the female athlete.
A)Quid pro quo harassment.
B)An accepted practice in sport.
C)Hostile environment harassment.
D)A rare but unaccepted practice in sport.
Answer: A
Q2) Which of the following statement is most true relative to the "formative years" for sport psychology in North America?
A)Sport psychology began to emerge as a discipline separate from motor learning.
B)Prior to the emergence of sport psychology as a discipline,most research in the area was conducted in a laboratory setting.
C)Sport psychology began to emerge as a discipline separate from exercise physiology.
D)All of the above.
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Personality As a Core Characteristic of the
Athlete
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Q1) A humanistic theory of personality is based upon
A)Unconscious motives.
B)Self-actualization.
C)Underlying predispositions.
D)Learning.
Answer: B
Q2) Which statement is true relative to the relationship between a player's position on a team and his/her personality profile?
A)There is no relationship at all between the two.
B)Evidence suggests that a relationship exists between personality and playing position,but the predictive power of the relationship is sometimes weak.
C)Player position can reliably be determined and predicted based upon an athletes' personality profile.
D)In the case of setting in volleyball,a clear relationship exists but not in other sports.
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Self-Confidence and Intrinsic Motivation
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Q1) Lenny (1977)argued that women and girls suffer from reduced levels of self-confidence when one or more of three situational variables are present.Which of the following is not one of those situational variables?
A)Nature of the task.
B)Games involving chance.
C)Ambiguity of available information.
D)Social comparison cues.
Answer: B
Q2) The notion that the interaction between intrinsic and extrinsic rewards could either increase or decrease intrinsic motivation is predicted by
A)Cognitive evaluation theory.
B)Additive principle.
C)Multiplicative principle.
D)a and c above.
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Goal Perspective Theory
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Q1) Antisocial behavior.
A)Voluntary behavior designed to disadvantage and perhaps harm another person.
B)Non-voluntary behavior designed to harm another person.
C)Aggression.
D)Lack of interest in being social.
Q2) The notion that a high level of ego goal orientation in combination with a strong performance climate yields desirable behavioral outcomes.
A)Goal involvement theory.
B)Goal perspective theory.
C)Incompatibility component of the matching hypothesis.
D)Compatibility component of the matching hypothesis.
Q3) Which of the following goal perspective terms are synonymous?
A)Task goal orientation and ego goal orientation.
B)Task goal orientation and mastery goal orientation.
C)Mastery goal orientation and differentiated goal perspective.
D)Competitive orientation and undifferentiated goal perspective.
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Chapter 5: Youth Sports
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Q1) Most incidences of violence in youth sport involves
A)Youth participants.
B)Coaches.
C)Officials.
D)Parents.
Q2) Which of the following is not a socializing effect that a child's involvement in youth sport has upon parents?
A)Parent becomes increasingly disinterested in their child's sport involvement.
B)Parent actively participates with youth,coaches,and other parents.
C)Parent becomes aware of child's goals and aspirations.
D)Parent gets emotionally involved in management of the youth sport program.
Q3) Which of the following is not a surface reason for withdrawing from youth sports participation?
A)Change of interest.
B)Other things to do.
C)Lack of thrills,challenges and excitement.
D)Anxiety associated with too much competition.
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Chapter 6: Attention and Concentration in Sport and Exercise
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Q1) Which of the following is not a synonym for external attentional focus?
A)Implicit learning.
B)Automatic processing.
C)Procedural knowledge.
D)Explicit learning.
Q2) An athletes' attention shifts randomly from stimulus to stimulus.
A)Distractibility.
B)Cue utilization.
C)Attentional narrowing.
D)All of the above.
Q3) Which of the following does not accurately reflect activity in short term memory?
A)Rehearsal loop.
B)Information retrieved from long term memory is rehearsed in STM.
C)Information received directly from the sensory store is rehearsed in STM.
D)Information can be permanently stored in short term memory if it is coded correctly.
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Chapter 7: Anxiety, Stress, and Mood Relationships
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Q1) _________________ includes such things as perfectionistic concerns,concern over mistakes,parental expectations,parental criticism,self-doubts about actions,and socially prescribed expectations.
A)Functional expectations.
B)Dysfunctional perfectionism.
C)Individual perfectionism.
D)Unidimensional perfectionism.
Q2) According to Lane and Terry's Conceptual Model of Mood for predicting performance from Profile of Mood State Scores,
A)High levels of depression are associated with increased anger,tension,confusion,fatigue,reduced vigor,and reduced performance.
B)In the absence of depression,vigor will have a facilitative effect on performance;fatigue and confusion will have a debilitative effect;and anger and tension will have a curvilinear effect upon performance.
C)Depression is a moderator between other manifestations of mood and athletic performance.
D)All of the above.
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Chapter 8: Alternatives to Inverted-U Theory
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Q1) In recent years,the major change in Hanin's notion of an Individual Zone of Optimal Functioning (IZOF)has been
A)Reliance upon placing a zone around depression instead of anxiety.
B)Reliance upon placing a zone around anxiety instead of confidence.
C)Reliance upon a zone of dysfunction instead of a zone of optimal function.
D)Reliance upon multiple emotions instead of only one.
Q2) Catastrophe theory questions all of the assumptions of inverted-U theory,but one in particular is pivotal.
A)As anxiety and arousal increase,performance decreases.
B)Small incremental increases in arousal result in small incremental increases or decreases in performance.
C)Moderate arousal results in optimal performance.
D)A smooth bell-shaped curve relationship exists between arousal and performance.
Q3) Relative to the Flow experience,which does not necessarily fit?
A)Autotelic experience.
B)The doing is the reward.
C)Something that is to be enjoyed and appreciated.
D)Peak performance.
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Chapter 10: Goal Setting in Sport
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Q1) Which of the following is considered to be an outcome goal as opposed to a performance or process goal?
A)It is important for me to play every point with confidence.
B)My goal is to get 70% of my first serves in the court.
C)My goal is to prevail against my opponent,what ever it takes.
D)I will hit 70% of my free throws and take down 10 rebounds in tonight's contest.
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 not a reason why goal setting results in improved athletic performance?
A)Causes the athlete to focus attention upon the task.
B)Effort mobilization.
C)Learning strategy contentment.
D)Nurtures persistence.
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Chapter 11: Imagery and Hypnosis in Sport
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Q1) The athlete imagines himself to be outside of his body watching from a distance.
A)Out of body experience.
B)Visual imagery.
C)Proprioceptive imagery.
D)External imagery.
Q2) Research shows that the ability to use imagery to visualize events
A)Is based upon language skills and not any aspect of the brain.
B)Only occurs when we reproduce a recent event.
C)Resides in the brain generally (diffuse).
D)Is based on a specific region in the brain responsible for seeing things in our mind's eye.
Q3) Which statement is false relative to the use of mental practice and time factors?
A)More is not necessarily better when it comes to the use of mental practice.
B)More is always better when it comes to the use of mental practice.
C)Mental practice is more beneficial when it precedes physical practice as opposed to following physical practice.
D)Mentally practicing for 1 to 3 minutes is more beneficial than mentally practicing for 5 to 7 minutes.
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Chapter 12: Psychological Skills Training
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Q1) Which of the following statements is true?
A)Psychological methods refer to practices that lead to psychological skill.
B)Psychological methods and skills are synonymous terms.
C)The terms psychological method and psychological skill are used inter-changeably.
D)All of the above are false.
Q2) Research suggests that when selecting a mental training professional,athletes prefer ___________ over ___________ titled individuals.
A)Titled,non-.
B)Psychology,sport psychology.
C)Sport psychology,psychology.
D)Coaches,sport psychology.
Q3) A psychological skills training program in which a member or members of an organization or trained by a sport psychologist to provide psychological services to their own athletes.
A)The team approach.
B)The organizational empowerment approach.
C)An unethical and unwise approach.
D)The grassroots approach.
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Chapter 13: Aggression and Violence in Sport
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Q1) Consistent with the reformulated F-A hypothesis,which of the following would not heighten the impulse for an aggressive response?
A)Objects having aggressive meaning.
B)Arousal and negative affect.
C)Low aggressive disposition.
D)Influences lowering aggressive restraint.
Q2) Which of the following is not likely to be a factor in encouraging aggression in sport?
A)Environmental temperature.
B)Perception of victim's intent.
C)Fear of retaliation.
D)Playing surface.
Q3) Intent to harm others through such things as social ostracism and malicious rumors.
A)Misplaced aggression.
B)Instrumental social aggression.
C)Hostile social aggression.
D)Relational aggression.
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Chapter 14: Audience and Self-Presentation Effects in Sport
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Q1) According to research,which statement is false relative to the home advantage?
A)Observed in team sports such as basketball,ice hockey,and baseball.
B)Home advantage more apparent in baseball than in basketball.
C)Observed in individual sports.
D)Observed in Olympic Games.
Q2) What is the away court disadvantage?
A)The home team has the advantage because they play better in front of their home crowd.
B)The away team plays as well as the home team but an official's bias favoring the home team prevails.
C)The home team wins more often because the visiting team suffers a decrement in performance.
D)It is a home team advantage.
Q3) Types of images people want to construct for people to see.
A)Self-presentation.
B)Self-preservation.
C)Impression motivation.
D)Impression construction.
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Chapter 15: Team Cohesion in Sport
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Q1) 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.
Q2) Which determinant is most important for the development of team cohesion among members of golf teams?
A)Personal satisfaction.
B)Family background.
C)Leadership factors.
D)Environmental factors.
Q3) A sport in which coordinated efforts and communication between two players are required for success.
A)Dyadic sport.
B)Team sport.
C)Individual sport.
D)Interactive sport.
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Chapter 16: Leadership and Communication in Sport
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Q1) The primary research tool used in the Ohio State studies relative to effective leadership was the
A)Leader behavior description questionnaire.
B)Leadership scale for sports.
C)Coaching behavior assessment system.
D)Leader after the fact description scale.
Q2) Which of the following is not a type of leader behavior outlined and discussed in Chelladurai's multidimensional model of leadership?
A)Legitimate behavior.
B)Prescribed behavior.
C)Actual behavior.
D)Preferred behavior.
Q3) According to the Jowett model of coach-athlete relationships,three factors are critical.Which of the following is not one of these factors?
A)Closeness.
B)Character.
C)Commitment.
D)Complementarity.
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Chapter 17: Exercise Psychology
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Q1) Which of the following is not a primary determinant of adherence to an exercise program?
A)Available time.
B)Mood state disturbance relative to exercise.
C)Exercise self-efficacy.
D)Group cohesion.
Q2) A short 30 minute burst of exercise.
A)Chronic exercise.
B)Acute exercise.
C)Aerobic exercise.
D)None of the above.
Q3) Recent research suggests that exercise self-efficacy has a direct effect upon exercise behavior and an indirect effect upon exercise behavior through intention to exercise.
A)Theory of planned behavior.
B)Theory of reasoned action.
C)Social cognitive theory.
D)Transtheoretical model theory.
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Chapter 18: The Psychology of Athletic Injuries and Career
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Q1) In the integrated model of sport injury,which of the following is not a major component of the recovery outcome process?
A)Cognitive appraisal.
B)Emotional response.
C)Personality of the athlete.
D)Behavioral response.
Q2) Which of the following statements is false?
A)A coping resource available to distance runners is attentional strategy.
B)Runners who use the associative strategy are highly motivated,are driven,and seek high performance.
C)The dissociative strategy of running is associated with lower incidence of injury.
D)The associative strategy of running is associated with lower incidence of injury.
Q3) Which of the following is not a factor associated with cognitive appraisal?
A)The need to adjust performance goals.
B)An estimate of recovery time.
C)Evaluation of perceived self-worth and self-confidence.
D)Tension,anger,depression.
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Chapter 19: Drug Abuse in Sport and Exercise
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Q1) Consistent with the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM),which is not a clinical eating disorder?
A)Eating disorder not otherwise specified.
B)Subclinical eating disorder.
C)Anorexia nervosa.
D)Bulimia nervosa.
Q2) Which of the following statements is/are true regarding eating disorders in athlete?
A)Clinically diagnosed eating disorders are rare among athletes.
B)Clinically diagnosed eating disorders occur in 40% of the athlete population.
C)Clinically diagnosed eating disorders occur in 50% of the athlete population.
D)Clinically diagnosed eating disorders occur in 60% of the athlete population.
Q3) Which of the following is not an important feature of Smith's model of stress and burnout?
A)Smith's model relies heavily upon the notion of costs and benefits.
B)Parallels stages of the stress process.
C)Is composed of four stages.
D)Interacts with personality and intrinsic motivation of athlete.
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