SPORT PSYCHOLOGY CERTIFICATION EVALUATION EXAMS SET FULL QUESTIONS AND COMPLETE SOLUTION

SPORT PSYCHOLOGY CERTIFICATION
EVALUATION EXAMS SET FULL QUESTIONS
AND COMPLETE SOLUTION

●● define practice
Answer: participating in a range of activities designed to aquire,
maintain, or improve at a skill.


●● types of practace
Answer: mental imagry: 1st or 3rd person, use all senses and allow
yourself to adjust speed


●● learning curve
Answer: straight, up, straight,: having difficulty to improve a skill before
you improve then platauing


●● why is it harder for experienced people to improve at a sport
Answer: learning curve: looks like straight, up, straight,: having
difficulty to improve a skill before you improve then platauing


●● arousal

, Answer: refers to a state of alertness and readiness that is driven by a
combination of internal factors (like motivation or anxiety) and external
factors (the stimulating environment).


●● do simple or complex tasks need more arousl for enagement
Answer: simple


●● Yerkes-Dodson Law
Answer: the principle that performance increases with arousal only up to
a point, beyond which performance decreases


●● yerkes dodson law graph
Answer: goes straight up down with bottom being arousal and side being
premormance best to be in peak where its mid arousal and peak
preformance


●● To much arousal
Answer: leads to choking, stress, poor preformance


●● not enough arousal
Answer: boredom poor preformance lack of interest


●● intrinsic motivation