CEE 568 PSYCHOLOGY OF PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE EXERCISE 1.

The phenomenon in which individual performance decreases as the number of people in the group increases is known as the? Answer: Ringelmann Effect. 2. Personality refers to? Answer: Characteristics or lack of the characteristics that make a person unique. 3. An example in which of PE teacher can use behavior modification with students is? Answer: Reinforce clean play. 4. Recent studies indicate that the greatest sources of stress for individuals rehabilitating from injury are? Answer: Psychological and Social. 5. The two principles of reinforcement area ____________ and ___________. Answer: Positive, Negative. 6. Need achievement theory is an interactional view that considers both the _______ and ______ , factors as important predictors of behavior. Answer: Personal, Situational. 7. A good goal needs to be? Answer: Measurable. 8. Research on goal setting has concluded that? Answer: Goal setting works and works very well. 9. Stress occurs when there is a substantial imbalance between the __________ and ________ demands placed on an individual. Answer: Physical, Psychological. 10. The ability of an athlete to maintain focus on relevant environment cues is called? Answer: Concentration 11. ___________ is the direction, sustainability and intensity of effort . Answer: Motivation. 12. A complex concept, _________, is an exhaustive psychophysiological response exhibited as a result of ineffective efforts to meet excessive and competitive demands. Answer: Burnout. 13. Social loafing occurs due to? Answer: Loss of motivation.

14. _______ is defined as an altered state or consciousness that can be induced by a procedure in which a person is in an unusual relaxed state and responds to suggestions for making alterations in perceptions, feeling, thoughts or actions. Answer: Hypnosis. 15. Anxiety is defined as? Answer: A negative emotional state in which feelings of nervousness, worry and apprehension are associated with activation or arousal of the body. 16. The three phases of PST (Psychological Skills Training) programs are Answer: Practice, Acquisition, Education phases. 17. The three major types of a goals are Answer: outcome goals, process goal, performance goals. 18. Coaches and teachers often form expectations of athletes? Answer: Performance information and person cues. 19. One of the most common errors made setting goals is? Answer: Failing to provide for goal evaluation and feedback. 20. Knowledge, accomplishment and stimulation are types of? Answer: Intrinsic motivation. 21. According to studies on intrinsic motivation in a competitive setting? Answer: Success produces higher of intrinsic motivation that does failure. 22. Which of the following is the major reason that young athletes give for dropping out of sport? Answer: Other things to do. 23. The best way of understand motivation is to understand both the _______ and the ______ and how the two interact. Answer: Person, situation. 24. Which of the following is among the common problems in goal setting? Answer: Setting specific goals. 25. Arousal is _______ Answer: a blend of physiological and psychological activation, varying on a continuum from deep sleep to intense activation. 26. A level of performance, pattern of behavior, or belief that is formally or informally established as appropriate by a group is called a _______ Answer: norm.