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PSY 226: Sports Psychology Midterm Examination Instructions Choose five questions and provide comprehensive answers to each question. Answer the question in three paragraphs and utilize a minimum of three references including the text, articles, and/or websites. Citations should be used when appropriate. 1. Now that you have examined various ways that sport psychologists measure personality, which inventory would you recommend for use? Why? 2. Do you think multicultural training can help members of diverse teams be more accepting of one another? In your opinion, what must be done to accomplish this goal? 3. Is psychological momentum fact or fiction? How do you feel about the projected performance model of psychological momentum? 4. Do you think the effects of Title IX on sport have completely eliminated the disparity in self-confidence sometimes exhibited by men and women? Explain and defend your answer. 5. What do you think is the most desirable motivational climate for developing selfconfidence and motivation in children and young athletes? Explain why you think this is so. Provide a detailed description of your ideal motivational climate. 6. Can an athlete cut out distracting scenarios while at the same time maintaining a broad external focus of attention? If so, give examples in sport where this occurs. 7. What does it mean when a sports announcer says that an athlete is in the “zone”? Do you think this term represents an oversimplification of a complex interaction between mind and body? What is an athlete’s mind doing when the athlete is in the “zone”? 8. Discuss the stress process and give examples of each stage of the process. What is the importance of appraisal and coping in the model? What is meant by a balance between the stressful nature of a competitive situation and the athlete’s perceived ability to cope with the situation? 9. How does “self-talk” differ from the “trash talk” used by many athletes today? 10. Do you think self-talk can really increase self-confidence and performance? Explain and defend your answer.
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Now that you have examined various ways that sports psychologists measure personality,
which inventory would you recommend for use? Why?
Project test
Project test is the most recommended inventory that has been used by the psychologist in
measuring the personality in sports. It is also considered as the personality test in sports whereby
the individual or a person is required to give answers to the ambiguous images or scenes. The
main objective of this inventory or technique is to show or indicate the hidden emotions
projected by the individual on the test with the hope or through the optimism that the matters can
be resolved through the psychotherapy (Gibbs et al 33-48).
This inventory is also considered as the best way since it has been observed to emerge
from the psychoanalytic school of thought which indicated that individuals have the unconscious
thoughts. This inventory is also observed as the best or important since it leads to the
interpretation of the ambiguous answers thus it makes the psychoanalysts be optimistic in
uncovering the feelings that might be crea...


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