Exam 12: Understanding and Managing Stress in Sport

Sighing with exhalation, rhythmic breathing, and a 5-to-1 breathing count are all exercises that can be used to increase arousal or activation levels.

Trait anxiety is spontaneous.

The twosensations that are emphasized in autogenic training are:

Contemporary anxiety theories do not include which of the following?

Breathing exercises for energy:

The neck-shoulder check is an example of a momentary relaxation exercise.

Another way to deal with under activation caused by fatigue is to:

Coaches often have four immediate responses to competitive demands perceived as stressful: cognitive, affective, physiological, and behavioral, which, more often than not, negatively influence their coaching style.

Bracing might lead to all of the following, except:

These relaxation exercises take between 10-30 seconds and are best used during performance:

The potential for __________ of stress in elite sport and the challenges associated with the environments that surround the modern day athlete are widely acknowledged.

Continued physiological arousal will, up to a _________, lead to positive effects on performance. However, continued increases in physiological arousal could result in a ___________.

Progressive relaxation, autogenic training, the relaxation response, and deep diaphragmatic breathing are:

The use and measurements of these would not be helpful with this repressor:

The process of thinking about the activities required to achieve a desired goal on some scale is known as:

Sport psychologists may consider increasing arousal levels to perform a/an _______ function to enhance performance.

These two words are used synonymously:

Stress inoculation training combines the use of imagery, self-talk, and relaxation.

Proper breathing comes from the:

The Inverted-U hypothesis is the only theory used to explain stress and performance.