Exam 19: Applied Sport Psychology

What refers to whether an individual will seek out, approach, or be attracted to certain situations?

__________________is the belief that one's abilities are greater than or equal to the demands placed upon them, and that you can successfully perform a desired behavior.

________________ is the attentional flexibility to go back and forth between the four attention styles to assure that they are picking up all relevant cues and filtering out all irrelevant ones.

Confidence is not a teachable skill.

The goal of winning a state track meet is an example of what type of goal?

Strong feelings, having both physical and psychological manifestations that serve to energize behaviors are known as:

Self-talk is closely related to confidence in that a person's self-talk is generally representative of what they believe.

Having too much arousal can lead to which of the following?

The attention style where the performer will rapidly assess a situation, taking in a variety of information from the external environment is known as:

An athlete telling herself "Come on, you can do this!" is an example of what kind of self-talk?