Sports Psych Exam Questions and Answers Graded A+
Advice for parents about burnout includes:
Recognize what is an optimal amount of pushing.
Give support, show empathy, and reduce the importance of outcome.
Involve players in decision making.
Lessen involvement.
__________________________...
Sports Psych Exam
Questions and
Answers Graded A+
Advice for parents about burnout includes:
Recognize what is an optimal amount of pushing.
Give support, show empathy, and reduce the importance of outcome.
Involve players in decision making.
Lessen involvement.
___________________________
take time off to relax
push as much as the coach wants
relive your glory days through the athlete
make sports more important than anything else - Answer-take time off to relax
Advice for coaches includes:
Have two-way communication with players.
Cultivate personal involvement with players.
Use player input.
___________________________
trust your own instincts
try to understand the players' feelings
ask for advice form the best coaches
only allow days off when absolutely necessary - Answer-try to understand the player's
feelings
Most pertinent to our class, sport participation has important short and long term
physical and ___________ consequences for children. Organized sport is not
automatically beneficial; trained, competent adult leadership is needed.
psychological
sociological
spiritual
chemical - Answer-psychological
, Affiliation motive is a major motive that children have for sport participation and is
important in its own right. Sport psychology researchers have also discovered that
___________________ have other important effects on young athletes.
Smith, Smoll, and Curtis' (1979) classic research notes that a coach's focus on
instruction, reinforcement, mistake-contingent instruction, and encouragement
correlates with a player's __________________, motivation, and positive attitudes.
anxiety
burnout
self-esteem
aggression - Answer-self-esteem
Learning a positive approach to coaching results in lower player _________________.
drop-out rates
effort
competitiveness
performance - Answer-drop-out rates
To optimize talent, young athletes should not specialize in a single sport too early, and
parents and coaches should emphasize ___________, friendship, and development.
high effort
assertiveness
competitiveness
fun - Answer-fun
Sportsmanship Coaching Behavior Scale (SCBS) allows athletes to assess coach's
behaviors as related to athletes' sportsmanship outcomes.
Six subscales include:
Four coaching behaviors that foster good sportsmanship (teaching, modeling,
reinforcement, and prioritizing sportsmanship over winning)
Punishing poor sportsmanship
__________________________________
setting expectations for good sportsmanship
rewarding high effort above team cohesion
rewarding team strategizing
setting expectations of playing one's hardest - Answer-setting expectations for good
sportsmanship
Sport leaders and educators have a ____________ to stop hazing practices and teach
athletes how to team build in positive ways
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