PYC4812 SPORT PSYCHOLOGY PRACTICE
TEST 2026 TESTED QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
◉ what do men focus more on? women?
Answer: winning, personal performance
◉ self-confidence is a _____
Answer: choice
◉ self-confidence
Answer: global measure of ability
◉ emotion
Answer: have a specific object they are about some thing
◉ big six emotions
Answer: happiness, sadness, anger, surprise, disgust, fear
◉ event leads to emotion or emotion leads to event?
Answer: event leads to emotion
,◉ prototypical emotion
Answer: coherent packages of responses recognizable as common
sense emotions
◉ core affect
Answer: two dimensional structure: pleasure/displeasure,
activation/deactivation
◉ examples of external stimuli
Answer: bear, test, game, cookie
◉ examples of internal stimuli
Answer: activity of immune cells, diurnal rhythms, hormonal
changes
◉ misattributions to an object
Answer: core affect makes congruent affect information more
accessible (happy person might misattribute their positive feelings
to the object of their perception)
◉ appraisal
, Answer: cognitive processing of the object - relative to future
outcomes, individual goals, and its casual antecedents
◉ instrumental action
Answer: action directed towards object (approach and avoid
motivation)
◉ core affect and the psychological construction of emotions
Answer: not specific identifiable entities, may just be learned
(history)
◉ appraisal process of emotion development
Answer: describes how our thinking about a thing, event, outcome,
person, etc leads to the development of emotional experiences
◉ incidental affect
Answer: general mood state or affective states elicited by previous
events (just got asked out on a date therefore I'm feeling positive),
primed feeling
◉ integral affect
Answer: the feelings you feel about an object in your perception
TEST 2026 TESTED QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
◉ what do men focus more on? women?
Answer: winning, personal performance
◉ self-confidence is a _____
Answer: choice
◉ self-confidence
Answer: global measure of ability
◉ emotion
Answer: have a specific object they are about some thing
◉ big six emotions
Answer: happiness, sadness, anger, surprise, disgust, fear
◉ event leads to emotion or emotion leads to event?
Answer: event leads to emotion
,◉ prototypical emotion
Answer: coherent packages of responses recognizable as common
sense emotions
◉ core affect
Answer: two dimensional structure: pleasure/displeasure,
activation/deactivation
◉ examples of external stimuli
Answer: bear, test, game, cookie
◉ examples of internal stimuli
Answer: activity of immune cells, diurnal rhythms, hormonal
changes
◉ misattributions to an object
Answer: core affect makes congruent affect information more
accessible (happy person might misattribute their positive feelings
to the object of their perception)
◉ appraisal
, Answer: cognitive processing of the object - relative to future
outcomes, individual goals, and its casual antecedents
◉ instrumental action
Answer: action directed towards object (approach and avoid
motivation)
◉ core affect and the psychological construction of emotions
Answer: not specific identifiable entities, may just be learned
(history)
◉ appraisal process of emotion development
Answer: describes how our thinking about a thing, event, outcome,
person, etc leads to the development of emotional experiences
◉ incidental affect
Answer: general mood state or affective states elicited by previous
events (just got asked out on a date therefore I'm feeling positive),
primed feeling
◉ integral affect
Answer: the feelings you feel about an object in your perception
