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Which personality disposition(s) is (are) related to change in state anxiety? |
All of the above -Trait anxiety -self-esteem -social physique anxiety |
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A quarterback needs to shift his attentional focus from surveying the field for receivers to delivery of a pass. This shift would be from |
broad-external to narrow-external |
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The catastrophe theory suggests that performance is determined by a complex interaction of |
physiological arousal and cognitive anxiety |
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A highly trait-anxious athlete (compared to a less trait-anxious athlete) would perceive competition as |
more threatening and more anxiety producing |
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A "catastrophe" occurs, according to catastrophe theory, with |
high cognitive anxiety and high physiological arousal |
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In evaluative situations, individuals with high trait anxiety tend to exhibit |
high state anxiety |
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The importance placed on an event and the uncertainty that surrounds the actions of that event are sources of |
situational stress |
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Which of the following is (are) true regarding the home-court advantage? |
none of the above |
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A moment-to-moment change in one’s perceived physiological activation is referred to as |
somatic state anxiety |
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A substantial imbalance between demand and response capability under conditions in which failure has important consequences refers to |
stress |
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According to catastrophe theory, to recover from a catastrophe the athlete must |
All of the above -completely relax physically -control her worries through cognitive restructuring -reactivate herself in a controlled manner |
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Which of the following is NOT a physical manifestation of excess state anxiety? |
feeling threatened |
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Which of the following is NOT symptomatic of heightened state anxiety? |
slowed breathing |
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The relationship between arousal and performance depends on one’s interpretation of the arousal level. This is the basic approach of |
reversal theory |
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There is a direct relationship between one’s level of |
trait anxiety and state anxiety |
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Hanin’s zones of optimal functioning approach suggests that |
each individual has a specific optimal level of efficiency |
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Which theory predicts a linear relationship between arousal and performance? |
drive theory |
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In Hanin’s work on individualized zones of optimal functioning, he argues that for best performance to occur an athlete needs |
an optimal level of state anxiety and other emotions |
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Multidimensional anxiety theory predicts |
A and B -a negative relationship between cognitive anxiety and performance -an inverted-U relationship between somatic anxiety and performance |
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The results of Weinberg and Hunt’s (1976) study on college students with high and low trait anxiety demonstrated that |
B and C -increased muscle tension contributed to inferior performance -increased coordination difficulties contributed to inferior performance |
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Increased arousal affects attentional focus in which of the following ways? |
narrowing of focus |
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One’s general level of anxiety that stays relatively stable over time refers to |
trait anxiety |
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The inverted-U hypothesis predicts that |
B and C |
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Athletes lower in self-esteem are more likely to experience |
low confidence and high state anxiety |
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