Exam 1 Study Guide

4. In Norman Triplett’s study, he found that children reel _______ when reeling in the presence of others.
6. One of the three primary careers of a sport psychology professional is to _________ at a university.
7. This type of knowledge is gained through experience. (two words)
9. A goal that characterizes success by comparing your performance to yourself is known as ______-oriented motivation. Another name for this is task-oriented.
10. Dorothy Hazeltine _______ taught university boxers how to manage their emotions and enhance performance.
13. This type of data is numerical, whereby numbers are used to help explore a research question.
16. The direction and intensity of one’s effort.
17. _______ __________ _________ means that skills learned in sport can also be used in other areas of life, such as school or home life. (three words)
19. This orientation to studying sport psychology typically examined physiological processes in relation to sport outcomes.
20. The locus of ________ in the Attribution Theory focuses on whether a cause of a success/failure is related to the cause being under the individual’s control or not.
22. The A in the ABCs of sport psychology stands for:
24. The Self-Determination Theory has three basic psychological skills that result in people feeling more ________ motivation.
26. This basic psychological skill relates to having a choice over things.

1. According to Sorrentino and Sheppard (1978), swimmers who are approval-oriented have ______ performance when swimming alone.
2. Clinical sport psychologists have a PhD in __________ which helps to make them more qualified to treat clinical disorders in athletes.
3. In the Need Achievement Theory, if someone has a resultant tendency of approaching success, they tend to focus on the ______ of success.
5. the scientific study of people and their behaviors in sport contexts and the practical application of that knowledge is ________ _________. (two words)
8. The father of American sport psychology. (two words)
11. When we say that science is ________, we mean that it is based on objective information or observation that is open to outside evaluation.
12. According to Beans and Kramer (2022), sport can help to develop ______ _______ in children. (two words) Hint: Beans and Kramer (2022) is your Week 1 reading.
14. This type of goal focuses on avoiding incompetence.
15. The most widely endorsed view of motivation is the __________ view.
18. This type of knowledge tends to be conservative and slow to evolve.
21. The _____ of one’s effort is whether an individual seeks out, approaches, or is attracted to certain situations
23. This view of motivation says that motivated behavior is primarily a function of individual characteristics.
25. In comparing traits vs. situation, it is easier to change which of these in order to influence motivation?