A technique or strategy used to enhance psychological skill in an athlete is known as:

• A) Psychological method
• B) Psychological skill
• C) Psychological proficiency
• D) Psychological intervention

Ateeq monitors an auditory signal of his own heart rate and experiments with different thoughts, feelings, and sensations to slow the heart rate. Which relaxation strategy may it refer to?

• A) Meditation
• B) Autogenic training
• C) Progressive relaxation
• D) Biofeedback

____________ has been defined as “using all senses to re-create an experience in the mind.”

• A) Hypnosis
• B) Imagery
• C) Cohesion
• D) Self-activation

Hypnotized subject is neutral in which of the following phase:

• A) Induction Phase
• B) Post-hypnotic Phase
• C) Waking up Phase
• D) Hypnotic phase

Which of the following term is defined as “using all the senses to re-create an experience in the mind”?

• A) Imagery
• B) Self-talk
• C) Attentional focus
• D) Individual goal setting

The Athletic Coping Skills Inventory (ACSI-28) was developed by:

• A) Gabriel and Perkins
• B) Smith, Schutz, Smoll and Ptacek
• C) Thomas, Murphy and Hardy
• D) Mahoney

The use of mental imagery to experience goal attainment, effective coping and arousal management is the ______________.

• A) Behavioral functional of imagery
• B) Cognitive function of imagery
• C) Motivational functional of imagery
• D) Social functional of imagery

Which of the following theory explains hypnosis that the hypnotic trance is responsible for the phenomenon associated with hypnosis without suggestion?

• A) Hypnosis as an Altered State of Consciousness
• B) Freudian Theory
• C) Neodissociation Theory
• D) Social-cognitive Theory

Learned or innate characteristic of the athlete that makes it possible or even likely that he or she will succeed in sport is called:

• A) Psychological skill
• B) Psychological method
• C) Psychological process
• D) Psychological intervention

Which of the following inventory developed by Thomas, Murphy and Hardy (1999), assesses psychological skills of athletes?

• A) Test of Performance Strategies
• B) Athletic Coping Skills Inventory
• C) Psychological Skills Inventory for Sports
• D) Psychological Methods Inventory for Sports

Mental practice is less effective in:

• A) Activities that involve more physical power
• B) Activities that require some thinking and planning
• C) Motor task that has a small cognitive component
• D) Tasks that involves more attention

Goal setting, imagery, progressive relaxation, meditation, self-talk, and hypnosis are some examples of:

• A) Psychological skills
• B) Psychological methods
• C) Psychological capabilities
• D) Psychological expertise

If a team has already reached an optimal stage of arousal and if again pep talk is provided, what would be the impact of it on sport performance?

• A) Positive impact
• B) No impact
• C) Negative impact
• D) None of the given options

Successful athletes develop their own methods for energizing themselves on a moment’s notice, it is called ____________.

• A) Self confidence
• B) Self activation
• C) Self esteem
• D) Self thought

Which of the following strategies are used to obtain peak performance of athletes?

• A) Meditation
• B) Arousal Energizing
• C) Bio feedback
• D) Relaxation

Effective self talk statements must possess all of the following qualities EXCEPT:

• A) Long and complicated
• B) Compatible with the sequential timing of the task being performed
• C) Logically associated with the skill involved
• D) Brief and phonetically simple

All of the followings are the theories of hypnosis EXCEPT:

• A) Neodissociation Theory
• B) Hypnosis as an Altered State of Consciousness
• C) Freudian Theory
• D) Social-cognitive Theory

An intervention formalized into a program for improving the psychological skills of athletes is referred to as:

• A) Psychological intervention program
• B) Psychological proficiency program
• C) Psychological methods program
• D) Psychological skills program

Which of the following is NOT considered as self-energizing strategy?

• A) Pre-competition workout
• B) Self-talk
• C) Imagery
• D) Attentional focus

Increased attention is associated with:

• A) Increased psychological arousal
• B) Increased physiological arousal
• C) Increased team cohesion
• D) Increased self satisfaction