Questions
- Chapter 1 – Introducing sport psychology: discipline and profession
- Chapter 2 – Motivation and goal-setting in sport
- Chapter 3 – ‘’Psyching up’’ and calming down: anxiety in sport
- Chapter 4 – Emotions and coping
- Chapter 5 – Staying focused in sport: concentration in sport performers
- Chapter 6 – Using imagination in sport: mental imagery, motor imagery and mental
practice in athletes
- Chapter 7 – What lies beneath the surface? Investigating expertise in sport
- Chapter 8 – Exploring team cohesion in sport: a critical perspective
- Chapter 9 – New horizons: embodied cognition and cultural sport psychology
, Chapter 1
Many prominent athletes and coaches believe that although sport is played with the body, it is won
in the mind.
- TRUE/FALSE
Because mental processes are crucial for athletic success, psychologists should be able to help sports
competitors to enhance their athletic performance by providing them with practical advice on how to
do their best when it matters most.
- TRUE/FALSE
Athlete–psychologist consultations are always about performance enhancement.
- TRUE/FALSE
Mental resilience can be developed through practice and training.
- TRUE/FALSE
Insights into the importance of psychological factors in sport are anecdotal and not supported by
scientific evidence.
- TRUE/FALSE
All sport psychologists are professional psychologists.
- TRUE/FALSE
Sport psychology has always been welcomed or appreciated by athletes.
- TRUE/FALSE
To date, sport psychology is regarded as an established field of psychology.
- TRUE/FALSE
Sport scientists typically distinguish between two hypothetical aspects of athletic performance:
physical and psychological.
- TRUE/FALSE
Identical mental preparation strategies are, for example, as effective among competitive sailors as
among snooker players.
- TRUE/FALSE
Self-efficacy is the belief that one has the internal resources, particularly abilities, to achieve success.
- TRUE/FALSE
Confidence is the belief that one has the capacity to execute the courses of action required to
achieve a specific goal.
- TRUE/FALSE
Typically, the term mental toughness is used as a synonym for determination, resilience and/or an
exceptional immunity to pressure situations.
- TRUE/FALSE
Mental toughness is widely regarded as the key to sporting success.
- TRUE/FALSE