Sports and Performance Psychology Exam Questions with Revised Correct Detailed Answers with Rationales Guaranteed Pass
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Sports and Performance Psychology Exam Questions with Revised Correct Detailed Answers with Rationales Guaranteed Pass
Achievement Goal theory - Answers - Theory that postulates two types of motivational orientation in athletes:
1. ego orientation: focusing mainly on demonstrating ones compe...
Sports and Performance Psychology Exam
Questions with Revised Correct Detailed
Answers with Rationales Guaranteed Pass
Achievement Goal theory - Answers -✔✔ Theory that postulates two types of
motivational orientation in athletes:
1. ego orientation: focusing mainly on demonstrating ones competence in given skill by
performing better than others.
2. task orientation: focusing mainly on acquiring certain level of competence in given
skill.
--> depends on how they interpret meaning of success or achievement.
Achievement motivation - Answers -✔✔ Tendency to strive for success or to expend
effort and display persistence in attempting to attain desirable goal.
Action planning - Answers -✔✔ The process by which an individuals intention is
translated into specific actions in order to achieve a desired behavioural goal.
Action plans - Answers -✔✔ Specific behavioural acts that serve as stepping stones to
goal attainment
affordance - Answers -✔✔ a set of actions that a specific object or environmental
context "affords" or makes available to perceiver.
Anecdotal evidence - Answers -✔✔ Subjective evidence derived from examples or
personal experience.
Anxiety - Answers -✔✔ An emotional state characterized by worry, feelings of
apprehension and/or bodily tension, that tends to occur in the absence of real or
obvious danger.
Arousal reappraisal - Answers -✔✔ Interpreting increases in arousal as being
beneficial to performance.
Attention - Answers -✔✔ the concentration of mental effort on sensory or mental
events.
Attentional control theory - Answers -✔✔ A theory that postulates that anxiety hampers
skilled performance by disrupting attentional control mechanisms in working memory,
such as attentional inhibition (the process which enables people to ignore relevant
, stimuli) and attentional shifting (the process by which people can switch attention from
one task to another depending on change task requirements)
Attribution - Answers -✔✔ The process of drawing inferences from, or seeking
explanations for, events, experiences and behaviour.
Attribution theory - Answers -✔✔ The study of peoples explanations for the causes of
events or behaviour in their lives.
Attributional retraining - Answers -✔✔ This is a therapeutic strategy that helps people
to change the way in which they perceive and think about the meaning of success and
failure.
Attributional style - Answers -✔✔ The characteristic manner in which people make
sense of, or offer similar explanations for different events in their lives.
Autonomic nervous system (ANS) - Answers -✔✔ Part of peripheral nervous system,
that regulates the bodys involuntary muscles and internal organs.
Behavioural anxiety - Answers -✔✔ A component of anxiety that is typically evidence in
such behaviour as tense facial expressions, changes in communication patterns, and
jerky inefficient body movements.
Biofeedback - Answers -✔✔ A technique that allows people to monitor and gain control
over certain bodily functions through the use of specialized equipment.
Bio-informational theory of imagery - Answers -✔✔ A theory that mental images are not
"pictures in head" but consist of stimulus, response and meaning propositions.
Brainstorming - Answers -✔✔ The generation of ideas or suggestions by members of a
group in an effort to solve a problem.
Broaden-and-build theory - Answers -✔✔ This theory proposes that positive emotions
can broaden peoples momentary thought-action repertoires thereby enhancing their
personal resources.
Burnout - Answers -✔✔ A state of withdrawal from a valued activity that is usually
caused by chronic stress, and accompanied by feelings of physical and mental
exhaustion
Case study - Answers -✔✔ A research method that involves in-depth description or
detailed examination of a single person of instance of a situation.
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