Chapter 1 - Introduction to Sports Psych

Question 1

What is sports psychology defined as?

Answer 1

An interdisciplinary field integrating sport science with applied psychology.

Question 2

What are some examples for applied sports psych?

Answer 2

Cognitive psychology, clinical and counselling psychology, behavioural neuroscience, social psychology, developmental psychology, and health psychology

Question 3

What are the 3 roles of exercise sport psychologists?

Answer 3

Teaching, Research, Consulting

Question 4

What are the 3 sub-methods of consulting?

Answer 4

Emotional, Cognitive, Behavioural

Question 5

What is emotional consulting?

Answer 5

Emotional focuses on changing negative emotions into positive ones

Question 6

What is cognitive consulting?

Answer 6

Focuses on how someone’s thoughts influence emotional experience, motivation, health and performance

Question 7

What is behavioural consulting?

Answer 7

Focuses on how behaviours can influence performance and wellbeing

Question 8

What is the ISSP?

Answer 8

International Society of Sports Psychology

Question 9

What is NASPA?

Answer 9

North American Society of Sport and Physical Activity

Question 10

What is ontology?

Answer 10

The nature of reality

Question 11

What is epistemology?

Answer 11

The nature of knowledge

Question 12

What is methodology?

Answer 12

The methods of finding out knowledge

Question 13

What is realism?

Answer 13

The external world exists independently of human perception

Answer 14

The external world exists as a mental construct.

Question 15

What is an objectivist?

Answer 15

Emphasis on empirical information - knowledge is derived from objective information and studies

Question 16

What is a constructionist?

Answer 16

Emphasis on individuals building and contracting knowledge based on personal experience and emotions

Question 17

What is a subjectivist?

Answer 17

Emphasis on suggesting that knowledge and truth are relative to cultural, historical and individual perspectives.

Question 18

What is qualitative research?

Answer 18

Focuses on the quality of experience - thoughts, feelings, actions (personal and descriptive)

Question 19

What is quantitative research?

Question 20

What is a research paradigm?

Answer 20

The framework of scientific design and reasoning -thought of addressing 3 major questions: ontological,
epistemological, methodical

Question 21

What are the 2 major research paradigms?

Answer 21

Qualitative - Interpretivist
Quantitative - Positivist

Question 22

Examples of Quantitive methodology?

Answer 22

• Deductive process
  — Cause and effect
  — Static design - categories isolated before study
  — Context free
  — Generalizations leading to prediction, explanation, and understanding
  — Accurate and reliable through validity and reliability

Question 23

Examples of Qualitiative methodology

Answer 23

— Inductive process
— Mutual simultaneous shaping of factors
— Emerging designs - categories identified during research process
— Context bound
— Patterns, theories developed for understanding
— Accurate and reliable through verification