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This document provides a comprehensive study guide for the Certified Mental Performance Consultant (CMPC) exam, featuring correctly verified answers for each topic. It covers essential domains such as applied sport psychology, performance enhancement techniques, ethical practice, consultation strategies, and psychological skill training. The guide is organized to help students and professionals master CMPC concepts efficiently and prepare confidently for certification.

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CMPC Study Guide– Complete Review with
Correct Answers
The Female Triad- Answer relationships between energy availability (low vs. high; e.g., eating
disorders), menstrual function (functional hypothalamic amenorrhea vs. eumenorrhea), and bone
mineral density (optimal bone health vs. osteoporosis)

energy availability- Answer Dietary intake minus exercise energy expenditure

1st energy goal to manage
- Answer increase energy availability by increasing energy intake and/or
reducing exercise energy expenditure (nutritional counseling/monitoring)

Self-determination theory
- Answer autonomy, relatedness, competence

negotiating reality defined (Friedman)
- Answer- active awareness of oneself as a complex being
and the effect of one's culture on thinking and action
- an ability to engage with others to explore tacit assumptions that underlie behavior and goals
- an openness to testing out different ways of thinking and doing things

Bennet (1998) six-stage model of working with cultural differences
- Answer 1. denial of difference
(isolation)
2. defense (perceiving cultural difference as a threat to their worldview)
3. minimization (accepting superficial differences while maintaining the assumption that people
are basically the same)
4. acceptance (recognizing the viability of different cultural norms
5. adaptation (knowing enough about another culture to intentionally shift frame of reference and
modify behavior to fit its norms)
6. integration (reconciling cultural differences and forging a multicultural identity)

Negotiating reality underlying beliefs
- Answer- all people are of equal importance and worthy of
equal respect
- as cultural beings, people differ because they possess different repertoires of ways of seeing and
doing things
- the repertoire of no individual or group merits a priori superiority or right to dominance

advocacy- Answer clearly expressing and standing up for what one thinks and desires

inquiry - Answer exploring and questioning both one's own reasoning and the reasoning of others
(often requires a conscious effort to suspend judgment, experience doubt, and accept a degree of
uncertainty until a new understanding is achieved)

Trans-theoretical model of change
- Answer pre-contemplation, contemplation (in next 6 months),
preparation (some, irregular activity), action (< 6 months), maintenance (> 6 months)

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Correct Answers
racial microaggressions
- Answer brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioral
, or
environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile,
derogatory, or negative racial slights and insults toward people of color

microassault- Answer an explicit racial derogation characterized primarily by a verbal or
nonverbal attack meant to hurt the intended victim through -calling,
name avoidant behavior, or
purposefully discriminatory actions

microinsult- Answer characterized by communications that convey rudeness and insensitivity and
demean a person's racial heritage or identity

microinvalidations- Answer characterized by communications that exclude, negate, or nullify the
psychological thoughts, feelings, or experiential reality of a person of color

nine categories of microaggressions
- Answer- alien in one's own land
- ascription of intelligence
- color blindness
- criminality/assumption of criminal status
- denial of individual racism
- myth of meritocracy
- pathologizing cultural values/communication styles
- second-class status
- environmental invalidation

interviewing techniques
- Answer motivational interviewing; micro skills; effective questioning

performance indicators- Answer body language; emotional displays; communication pattens;
response to adversity

mental preparation plan- Answer goal setting; imagery; relaxation and energization;
-talk;
self
putting it together/routines

Coach Effectiveness Training (CET)- Answer focus on athletes' effort and enjoyment rather than
statistics or scores; emphasize positive reinforcement, encouragement, and sound technical
instruction; establish norms that emphasize athletes' obligations
support
to one another; involve
athletes in decisions regarding team rules and reinforce compliance with rules; become more aware
of one's own behavior as a coach

coach responses to mistakes- Answer mistake
-contingent encouragement; mistake -contingent
technical instruction; punishment; punitive technical instruction; ignoring mistakes

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game-related coach behavior
- Answer general technical instruction; general encouragement;
organization/administrative behavior

building team cohesion in sport- Answer- set team goals
- ensure athletes' roles are understood and accepted
- ensure team meetings and practices are efficient
- ensure leadership is coherent, effective, and acceptable
- examine the way in which the team functions
- examine the relationships among team members
- diagnose potential weaknesses and minimize their effects on the team

contextual intelligence factors
- Answer culture; values; attitudes; history and language of the
performance domain; consultant role within performance and training environment;
organizational structure

Attribution theory- Answer cause of behavior is either dispositional (fundamental attribution
error) or situational (blame behavior on external/situational reasons)

Catastrophe model of anxiety- Answer proposed four specific relationships between cognitive
anxiety, physiological arousal, and performance (high vs. low)

When physiological arousal is low
- Answer cognitive anxiety has a positive linear relationship with
performance

When physiological arousal is high
- Answer Cognitive anxiety will have a negative relationship
with performance

When cognitive anxiety is low
- Answer physiological arousal has an inverted
-shaped
U
relationship with performance

When cognitive anxiety is high- Answer increased levels of physiological arousal lead to a
catastrophic drop in athletic performance (a large reduction in physiological arousal is needed to
increase performance)

Cue utilization model- Answer a theory that predicts that, as an athlete's arousal increase, his or
her attention focus narrows and the narrowing process tends to gate out irrelevant environmental
cues first and then, if arousal is high enough, the releva
nt ones

IZOF model - Answer suggests that each athlete could find out his/her optimal combination of
useful emotions and learn how to reach their unique state prior to competitions

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