Question 1

Kamp Staaldraad was an infamous military-style boot camp, established to develop team cohesion among:

Accepted Answer

A)   South Africa's national football squad
B)   Germany's national football squad
C)   South Africa's national rugby squad
D)   Holland's national track-and-field athletes C

Question 2

In sport psychology, what is the term used to refer to the tendency for people to work less hard on a task when they are part of a group than when they work as individuals?

Accepted Answer

A)   Social merging
B)   Social inertia
C)   Social hiding
D)   Social loafing D

Question 3

What is the correct term for a graphic measure in psychology in which group members are asked confidentially to name other members whom they either like or dislike?

Accepted Answer

A)   Eneagram
B)   Pentagram
C)   Tell-a-gram
D)   Sociogram D

Question 4

The Group Environment Questionnaire (GEQ) was developed by:

Accepted Answer

A)   Lewin et al.
B)   Hardy et al.
C)   Carron et al.
D)   Gould et al.

Question 5

Early research on social facilitation is associated mainly with the work of:

Accepted Answer

A)   Wundt
B)   Ebbinghaus
C)   Triplett
D)   Watson

Question 6

In meta-analysis, the effect size statistic is a number that represents:

Accepted Answer

A)   The number of studies included in the analysis
B)   The number of studies divided by the average effect in the analysis
C)   The average size of the sample in each study in the analysis
D)   The average strength of the effect in standard core units

Question 7

Lenk's (1969) research on German rowing teams was important because it challenged the assumption that:

Accepted Answer

A)   Cohesion cannot be measured objectively
B)   Cohesion is crucial to team success
C)   Cohesion can be increased using relaxation techniques
D)   Cohesion can be increased by peer evaluation

Question 8

"Brainstorming" is the term used to describe:

Accepted Answer

A)   Overloading teams with too much coaching information before matches
B)   The effects of anxiety on team performance
C)   The generation of ideas by members of a group to solve a problem
D)   Shouting at players to help them to focus properly

Question 9

Which former England soccer manager has coached championship-winning teams in Sweden, Portugal and Italy?

Accepted Answer

A)   Alf Ramsey
B)   Fabio Capello
C)   Steve McClaren
D)   Sven-Goran Eriksson

Question 10

According to Tuckman (1965), there are four stages in the development of any team - forming, storming, norming and:

Accepted Answer

A)   Performing
B)   Informing
C)   Reforming
D)   Competing

Question 11

In sport psychology, the study of how the presence of other people (e.g., spectators, fellow competitors) affects athletes' performance is known as:

Accepted Answer

A)   Social cohesion
B)   Social facilitation
C)   Team dynamics
D)   Team spirit

Question 12

What is the psychological term used to describe a form of social bonding between individuals in order to achieve a common purpose?

Accepted Answer

A)   Cohesion
B)   Conformity
C)   Diffusion
D)   Deindividuation

Question 13

The term "reification" refers to the logical fallacy of:

Accepted Answer

A)   Treating an abstraction as a concrete entity
B)   Treating a concrete entity as an abstraction
C)   Failing to distinguish between a cause and an effect
D)   Failing to define one's terms precisely

Question 14

In sport psychology, games in which athletes play for a team but in which individual performance does not depend on teamwork (e.g., golf) are known as:

Accepted Answer

A)   Interactive sports
B)   Co-active sports
C)   Transitive sports
D)   Aggregate sports

Question 15

What is the term for the method which involves analysis of patterns of correlations between variables at different times?

Accepted Answer

A)   Multi-trait, multi-method matrix correlation
B)   Stepwise multiple regression
C)   Cross-lagged panel correlation
D)   Pearson correlation

Question 16

What Irish Nobel prize-winner for literature played schoolboy cricket for Portora Royal School, Enniskillen, Northern Ireland?

Accepted Answer

A)   Seamus Heaney
B)   Samuel Beckett
C)   George Bernard Shaw
D)   William Butler Yeats

Question 17

What English football club in the 1980s gave rise to the group of players known as the "crazy gang"?

Accepted Answer

A)   Liverpool FC
B)   Manchester United FC
C)   Wimbledon FC
D)   Chelsea FC

Question 18

Which German psychologist is associated with the "field of forces" model of human behaviour?

Accepted Answer

A)   Wundet
B)   Lewin
C)   Helmholtz
D)   Munsterberg

Question 19

Who was the head coach of the England rugby team that won the World Cup in 2003?

Accepted Answer

A)   Clive Woodward
B)   Martin Johnson
C)   Brian Ashton
D)   Andy Robinson

Question 20

In sport psychology, what is the term used to refer to group members' shared beliefs in their conjoint capacity to achieve a desired goal?

Accepted Answer

A)   Collective efficacy
B)   Collective consciousness
C)   Group mental model
D)   Group consciousness

Exam 7: Exploring Team Cohesion in Sport: A Critical Perspective