Chapter 8: Psychology of athletic preparation and perforamance

Question 1

refers to a subjective experience of apprehension and uncertainty accompanied by elevated autonomic and voluntary neural outflow and increased endocrine activity

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state anxiety

Question 2

a personality variable or disposition relating to the probability that one will perceive an environment as threatening

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trait anxiety

Question 3

negative stress

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distress

Question 4

positive stress

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eustress

Question 5

proposes that as an individuals arousal or state anxiety increases, so too does perforance

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drive theory

Question 6

intesnsity and direction of effort

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motiviation

Question 7

the levels of optimal arousal for a person with low skill and competitivie experience vs someone of high skill and competitive experience

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lower

Question 8

this personality type performs better with lower levels of arousal vs this personality type

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introverted

extroverted

Question 9

more complex sport skills are better performed at this level of arousal first simple sport skills

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lower

Question 10

relates to the capacity to experience pride in one’s accomplishments ad is characterized by a desire to challenge oneself and evaluate ones abililites

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Motive to achieve success (MAS)

Question 11

relates to the desire to protect one’s ego and self-esteem.

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motive to avoid failure (MAF)

Question 12

the ability to inhibit awareness of some stimuli in order to process others

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selective attention

Question 13

selective attention allows the person to do this

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suppress task-irrelevant cues in order to process the task-relevant cues

Question 14

a technique by which psychological and physical arousal are self-regulated thorugh the control of skeletal muscle tension

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progressive muscle relaxation

Question 15

consists of a series of exercises designed to produce physical sensations in the body, generally warmth or heaviness. good for older athletes

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autogenic training

Question 16

combines mental and physical techniques that allow an athlete to replace a fear response to various cues with a relaxation response

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systematic desensitization

Question 17

learned replacement process behind the principle of systematic desensitization is

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counter conditionioning

Question 18

belief that one can successfully perform a desired behavior

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self-confidence

Question 19

situationally specific form of self-confidence, is the perception of one’s ability to perform a given task in a specific situtation

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self-efficacy

Question 20

goals over which achievement the athlete has control

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process goal

Question 21

goals over which the athlete has little to no control, such as winning in a competition

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outcome goal

Question 22

addresses the skill in its entirety

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whole practice

Question 23

seperates the skill into a series of sub components

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part practice

Question 24

tasks that are challenging but have low interrelatedness of subcomponents are learned better twith this type of practice

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part practice

Question 25

breaks down a task into a series of subcomponents that have clear breaks between them

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segmentation

Question 26

breaks the tasks into subcomponents that occur simultaneously

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fractionalization

Question 27

adjusts the difficults of the tasks by changing task characteristics such as the execution speed or the equipment used

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simplification

Question 28

this method has the athlete practice each subcomponent of the skill multiple times independently, ather all components have been practiced, the skill is practiced in its entirety

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pure-part training

Question 29

the athlete practices the first two parts of a movement, then practices the third before completing it with the first two

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progressive-part training

Question 30

the athlete practice only the frist part in isolation, then each subsequent part is added until the whole task is integrated

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repetitive part training

Question 31

three levels of instruction

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explicit instructions
guided discovery
discovery

Question 32

feedback which is provided to the athlete by the athlete from the senses

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intrinsic feedback

Question 33

feedback which is provided to the athlete by either an observer such as a coach or technology such as video or laboratory equipment

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augmented feedback

Question 34

provides the athlete with information about the execution of the task goal

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knowledge of results

Question 35

provides the athlete with information about their movement pattern

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knowledge of performance