All Free Health and Physical Education MCQs with Answers

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  • A. Negative self-talk
  • B. Headache
  • C. All above
  • D. Dry mouth

Explanation: Anxiety and arousal can appear through thoughts such as negative self-talk and physical symptoms such as headache and dry mouth.

Correct answer: All above
  • A. Performance goal
  • B. Social goal
  • C. Motivate goal
  • D. learning goal

Explanation: Mastery goals focus on improving competence, learning, and mastering a task, so they are also called learning goals.

Correct answer: learning goal
  • A. Anxiety
  • B. Aroused
  • C. Both A&B
  • D. Stress

Explanation: Anxiety is a negative emotional state commonly involving worry, nervousness, and apprehension.

Correct answer: Anxiety
  • A. Trophies
  • B. Prizes
  • C. All of these
  • D. Praise and status

Explanation: Extrinsic motivation comes from external rewards or recognition rather than enjoyment of the activity itself.

Correct answer: All of these
  • A. Extrinsic motivation
  • B. Intrinsic motivation
  • C. Both A&B
  • D. None of these

Explanation: The two basic forms usually identified are intrinsic motivation, which comes from enjoyment or interest, and extrinsic motivation, which…

Correct answer: Both A&B
  • A. Individual differences
  • B. Psychology difference
  • C. Impulses person
  • D. Personally

Explanation: Personality refers to characteristics that produce relatively consistent patterns of thinking, feeling, and behavior.

Correct answer: Personally
  • A. memory and perception
  • B. observational research
  • C. research involving some medicine or placebo phenomenology
  • D. Therapy research

Explanation: Cognitive psychology studies mental processes, especially memory, perception, attention, and thinking.

Correct answer: memory and perception
  • A. Skinner
  • B. Plato
  • C. Sigmund Freud
  • D. Darwin

Explanation: Psychoanalysis was developed by Sigmund Freud, who explained behaviour through unconscious motives and early experiences.

Correct answer: Sigmund Freud
  • A. Maslow
  • B. Mcclellan.
  • C. Jung
  • D. Alderfer

Explanation: Alderfer's ERG theory condenses human needs into existence, relatedness, and growth.

Correct answer: Alderfer
  • A. Skinner
  • B. Herzberg
  • C. Jung
  • D. Maslow

Explanation: Skinner's reinforcement theory explains motivation through consequences: behaviour followed by rewards tends to be repeated, while…

Correct answer: Skinner
  • A. 'End spurt'
  • B. 'Initial spurt'
  • C. Saturation point
  • D. None of the above.History

Explanation: A learning curve that rises sharply at the beginning shows rapid early improvement and is called an initial spurt.

Correct answer: 'Initial spurt'
  • A. Result of own performance
  • B. Natural outcome of competitive sports.
  • C. Result of good performance
  • D. Normally due to mismatched level of aspiration and ability

Explanation: Frustration commonly results when a person's level of aspiration is higher than the ability or performance needed to achieve it.

Correct answer: Normally due to mismatched level of aspiration and ability
  • A. Physical structure
  • B. Height and weight
  • C. Body composition
  • D. All the above.

Explanation: Physical structure is a broad hereditary influence that can affect learning through body build, nervous-system development, and related…

Correct answer: Physical structure
  • A. Law of intensity
  • B. Law of primacy
  • C. Law of recency
  • D. law of effect.

Explanation: The law of primacy states that the first impression or first learning is especially strong and can be difficult to change.

Correct answer: Law of primacy
  • A. Autocratic
  • B. Democratic
  • C. Lassez fair
  • D. None of the above.

Explanation: A laissez-faire leader gives members extensive freedom and provides little direction or participation in group decisions.

Correct answer: Lassez fair
  • A. Zone of optimal functioning
  • B. Inverted "U" Theory
  • C. Drive theory
  • D. None of these

Explanation: The zone of optimal functioning theory holds that every athlete performs best within an individual, preferred range of anxiety.

Correct answer: Zone of optimal functioning
  • A. Teacher
  • B. Strength & Conditioning
  • C. Researcher
  • D. Consultant

Explanation: Sports psychologists commonly work as teachers, consultants and researchers in performance and mental-skills development.

Correct answer: Strength & Conditioning
  • A. Sigmund Freud
  • B. Wundt William
  • C. Al-bertBandora
  • D. James

Explanation: Albert Bandura proposed social learning theory, explaining personality and behaviour through observation, imitation and interaction with…

Correct answer: Al-bertBandora
  • A. Psychological trait
  • B. Environmental state
  • C. Situation specific state
  • D. Personality trait

Explanation: Goal orientation is a relatively stable personal tendency describing whether an athlete focuses on mastery or demonstrating ability.

Correct answer: Personality trait
  • A. Wilhelm Tichener
  • B. Sigmund Freud
  • C. Wundt William
  • D. James

Explanation: Sigmund Freud founded the psychodynamic perspective, which emphasizes unconscious motives, internal conflict and the influence of early…

Correct answer: Sigmund Freud