Free Sports Psychology MCQs with Answers

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  • A. What you want
  • B. All of these
  • C. How you will get it
  • D. When you want to get it

Explanation: A clearly stated goal specifies the desired result, the time frame for achieving it, and the method or steps required.

Correct answer: All of these
  • A. Transparent policies
  • B. Tricky
  • C. Timely
  • D. None of above

Explanation: In the SMART framework, T refers to a goal being timely, meaning it has a clear time frame or deadline.

Correct answer: Timely
  • A. Dogs
  • B. Horses
  • C. Cats
  • D. Humans

Explanation: The need to form and maintain interpersonal attachments is a basic motivational characteristic of humans.

Correct answer: Humans
  • A. A self-generated thought and/or feeling
  • B. Wet weather
  • C. A camera clicking
  • D. Gamesmanship

Explanation: An internal distraction originates within the performer, such as a self-generated thought, worry, or feeling.

Correct answer: A self-generated thought and/or feeling
  • A. Organization, expectation and execution
  • B. Organisation, expectation and outcome
  • C. Level, generality and strength
  • D. Orientation, organisation and strength

Explanation: Bandura described self-efficacy as varying by level, generality, and strength.

Correct answer: Level, generality and strength
  • A. Anxiety, aggression, happiness
  • B. Anxiety, happiness, enjoyment
  • C. Happiness, sadness, satisfaction
  • D. Happiness, enjoyment, satisfaction

Explanation: Happiness, enjoyment, and satisfaction are pleasant emotions, so they have positive valence.

Correct answer: Happiness, enjoyment, satisfaction
  • A. Id
  • B. Ego
  • C. Super ego
  • D. All the above

Explanation: Freud’s structural model of personality includes the id, ego, and superego.

Correct answer: All the above
  • A. Troutwine athletic profile
  • B. Thematic Apperception Test
  • C. Rorschach test
  • D. House Tree Person Test

Explanation: The Rorschach, Thematic Apperception, and House Tree Person tests are projective techniques using ambiguous stimuli to reveal personality…

Correct answer: Troutwine athletic profile
  • A. Sociology
  • B. Ecology
  • C. Psychology
  • D. None of above

Explanation: Psychology is the scientific study of human behaviour and mental processes.

Correct answer: Psychology
  • A. Even importance
  • B. None of these
  • C. Expectation
  • D. Trait anxiety

Explanation: Trait anxiety is a relatively stable individual characteristic, not a situational factor.

Correct answer: Trait anxiety
  • A. Both advantageous and detrimental as per the situation
  • B. Detrimental to his abilities
  • C. Advantageous to the player
  • D. None of the above.

Explanation: Stress can help performance when it is moderate and energising, but excessive stress harms concentration, coordination and…

Correct answer: Both advantageous and detrimental as per the situation
  • A. Sigmund Freud
  • B. Wundt.
  • C. John B. Watson
  • D. Ivan Pavlov

Explanation: Wilhelm Wundt is regarded as the father of modern psychology because he established the first experimental psychology laboratory in…

Correct answer: Wundt.
  • A. Experience of the person
  • B. Knowledge of the person
  • C. Need of the person
  • D. Aptitude of the person.Psychology

Explanation: Achievement motivation is a person’s need or drive to accomplish a task, meet a standard and experience success.

Correct answer: Need of the person
  • A. Conditioned reflex
  • B. Unconditioned reflex
  • C. Conditioned stimulus
  • D. Conation.

Explanation: A conditioned reflex is a learned response produced after training or repeated association, such as responding to a signal that has been…

Correct answer: Conditioned reflex
  • A. Conception
  • B. Sensation
  • C. Perception
  • D. Affection.

Explanation: Sensation is the simplest cognitive process because it is the basic detection of stimulation by the senses.

Correct answer: Sensation
  • A. With a single blind design
  • B. With reactive measures
  • C. With a double blind design
  • D. With operational definitionsDiscover Lesson Plans

Explanation: A double-blind design prevents both participants and experimenters from knowing who receives which condition, reducing the experimenter's…

Correct answer: With a double blind design
  • A. Trait anxiety
  • B. Arosual
  • C. Stres
  • D. State anxiety

Explanation: State anxiety is a temporary feeling of apprehension and tension produced by a particular situation.

Correct answer: State anxiety
  • A. Similar
  • B. Smart
  • C. Spherical
  • D. None

Explanation: SMART goal setting makes goals Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound.

Correct answer: Smart
  • 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