Exam 6: Stress and Coping in Sport and Exercise

Distinguish between the concepts of primary and secondary appraisal in the experience of stress.

Which of the following is often a predictor of athlete's coping skills?

Which one of the following reactions is often referred to as a stress response?

Which of the following statements best reflects the relationship between self- presentation and exercise?

An athlete who interprets a failed attempt at a high jump as a positive is using which type of coping?

Which of the following predicts that males and females learn to use different coping strategies to manage the same types of situations through processes like sex- role stereotyping and role expectations?

A weakness in Lazarus' argument that a focus on emotions will be more useful than the general concept of stress is that he only describes the core relational themes for negative emotions.

An athlete who is subject to ongoing harassment and relationship issues with teammates is an example of acute stress.

The two "fits" that determine the effectiveness of coping in the goodness- of- fit model are:

Which of the following should best be considered an outcome of coping,but not coping itself?

Which of the following would be considered a non- competitive,expected stressor?

A volleyball player who believes that the team won because of his blocking ability will likely experience which type of emotion according to Lazarus' core relational themes?

In which of the following coping interventions does a participant practice their coping skills by starting with small manageable doses and gradually progress to more stress- inducing situations?

Which one of the following is a conclusion that is not generally accepted by most sport psychology researchers?

Which of the following would be considered a primary appraisal in the stress process?

Why is an understanding of the discrete emotions experienced by athletes potentially more useful than just knowing that athletes are "stressed"? Provide an example that demonstrates how an understanding of the discrete emotion experienced can tell us more than knowing that someone is simply experiencing stress.

In Meichenbaum's stress inoculation training people practice coping with gradually increasing levels of stress rather than learning to turn off a high level of stress via the implementation of an integrated coping response.

In Smith's stress management training people practice coping with gradually increasing levels of stress rather than learning to turn off a high level of stress via the implementation of an integrated coping response.

Which theory states that differences in stress are primarily the result of the different roles men and women play in society as opposed to any inherent gender differences?

Which of the following stressors was found from Holt and Hogg's (2002)research with the women's national soccer team during preparation for the 1999 World Cup finals?