Exam 9: Coping and Intervention Strategies in Sport

Vent unpleasant emotions.

Progressive relaxation involves the process of tensing and relaxing muscles,but does not involve

An initial decrease in performance leads to an increase in state anxiety,which leads to an additional decrease in performance followed by an even greater increase in state anxiety.

Autogenic training is a relaxation procedure developed by ________________

The _________________ consists of physiological changes that are opposite to the "fight or flight" response of the sympathetic nervous system.

Coping involves a personal response on the part of the athlete to address a __________.

_________________ focus upon those strategies that deal with the team as a whole and are generally orchestrated by the _________.

In progressive relaxation,the process of systematically tensing and relaxing muscles serves to

Which statement is false relative to the use of individual goal setting as an immediate self-energizing strategy?

Constantly changing cognitive and behavioral efforts to manage specific external and/or internal demands that are appraised as taking or exceeding the resources of the person.

The indiscriminate use of intervention strategies to control anxiety and arousal has prompted sport psychologists to propose a closer fit between debilitating symptom and its cure.This is referred to as

The vast majority of coping strategies used by elite athletes can be categorized under the heading of

The "why" of self-talk describes

Which of the following would not be a good self-affirmation statement to be used during self-talk?

Which of the following statements is true relative to the use of biofeedback for enhancing athletic performance?

___________________ is a modern meditational approach to controlling the ___________ nervous system.

Perhaps because of the difficulty of classifying avoidance coping as being either emotion or problem focused,some authors have identified only three categories of coping instead of four.These three categories are typically identified as

For purposes of psyching-up athletes,the following information should not appear on a locker room bulletin board.

Which of the following statements is false relative to EEG brain waves?

Name the two types of coping style dimensions.