Sport Psychology: Chapter 5

Which of these is true regarding the home-court advantage?

Between 1924 and 1982, the home team in the baseball World Series won 38% of the time when there was a seventh game.

The results of Weinberg and Hunt's (1976) study of college students with high and low trait and state anxiety demonstrated that

increased muscle tension contributed to inferior performance

increased coordination difficulties contributed to inferior performance

It is often difficult to get measures of anxiety during competition of interacting sport teams (e.g., soccer, basketball). Another way to get some information about anxiety states during competition is to use

retrospective measures

According to the catastrophe model, a catastrophe occurs with

high cognitive anxiety and high physiological arousal

The relationship between arousal and performance depends on one's interpretation of the arousal level. This is the basic approach of

reversal theory

A substantial imbalance between demand and response capability under conditions in which failure has important consequences refers to

stress

A quarterback needs to shift his attentional focus from surveying the field for receivers to delivering a pass. This shift would be from

broad-external to narrow-external

What is true of athletes?

Elite athletes generally interpret their anxiety as more facilitating than non-elite athletes.

A mix of positive emotions appears to enhance performance.

Both personal and situational factors may influence anxiety interpretation.

Multidimensional anxiety theory predicts

a negative relationship between cognitive anxiety and performance

an inverted-U relationship between somatic anxiety and performance

The Sport Anxiety Scale (SAS) is an example of a

situation-specific trait anxiety