CCSP Sports Psychology & Mental Performance Questions and Answers Flashcards
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A CCSP is helping an injured athlete mentally prepare for return to sport. Which evidence-based psychological skill uses mental rehearsal of successful performance to improve confidence and motor patterns?
Answer: Imagery (visualization)
Imagery or visualization involves mentally rehearsing athletic movements and successful outcomes, which activates similar neural pathways as physical practice.
Athlete burnout is characterized by three core dimensions according to Raedeke's model. Which of the following correctly lists all three?
Answer: Emotional/physical exhaustion, sport devaluation, and reduced sense of accomplishment
Raedeke's burnout model identifies emotional/physical exhaustion, sport devaluation (cynicism), and a reduced sense of accomplishment as the three core components.
Which psychological construct refers to an athlete's belief in their own ability to successfully perform a specific task in sport?
Answer: Self-efficacy
Self-efficacy, as defined by Bandura, is task-specific confidence in one's ability to execute a particular behavior or performance successfully.
Goal setting is a key mental performance strategy. Which goal type is considered most effective for improving sport performance when used as the primary focus during training?
Answer: Process goals (focusing on specific performance behaviors)
Process goals focus on controllable actions and technique cues, giving athletes concrete targets that directly improve performance more than outcome-based goals.
An athlete presents with the triadic combination of excessive drive for thinness, disordered eating, and menstrual irregularity. This constellation in a female athlete is part of which recognized syndrome?
Answer: Female Athlete Triad
The Female Athlete Triad classically describes the interrelated conditions of low energy availability, menstrual dysfunction, and low bone mineral density.
A CCSP working with a team notices an athlete displaying signs of staleness: declining performance despite normal training loads, increased irritability, and sleep disturbances lasting over two weeks. This best fits which diagnosis?
Answer: Non-functional overreaching or overtraining syndrome
Non-functional overreaching and overtraining syndrome present with performance decline, mood disturbances, and fatigue despite adequate training load, lasting weeks to months.