Deck 5: Youth Sports

Question 1

Which of the following is not a potential negative consequence of youth sport participation?

A)Too much competition and focus upon winning.
B)Challenge and excitement of competition.
C)Anxiety associated with sports participation.
D)Violence and aggression precipitated by adults.

Answer 1

Challenge and excitement of competition.

Question 2

Which of the following is not a surface reason for withdrawing from youth sports participation?

A)Change of interest.
B)Other things to do.
C)Lack of thrills,challenges and excitement.
D)Anxiety associated with too much competition.

Answer 2

Anxiety associated with too much competition.

Question 3

Which of the following is not a top five reason children give for participation in sport?

A)Challenge and excitement of participation and competition.
B)Friendships and team atmosphere.
C)Please parents.
D)Have fun and enjoy participation.

Answer 3

Please parents.

Question 4

Which of the following is not an antecedent of sport enjoyment?

A)Perceived competency.
B)Social constraints.
C)Effort expenditure.
D)positive parental involvement.

Question 5

Which of the following is not a typical characteristic of nonschool sponsored youth sport programs?

A)Coaches are unpaid volunteers.
B)It is not difficult to find practice facilities.
C)Coaches are often parents of youth sport participants.
D)Brings together all aspects of society.

Question 6

The best way to assure a quality youth sport program is to

A)Provide quality facilities and equipment.
B)Provide quality training and supervision of volunteer coaches.
C)Through sponsors,provide athletes with quality playing uniforms.
D)All of the above.

Question 7

What should be done to reduce violence among adults in youth sport?

A)Ban all adults from youth sport involvement.
B)Ban all parents from youth sport involvement.
C)Ban youth sports altogether.
D)None of the above.

Question 8

What should be done to reduce violence among adults in youth sports?

A)Require all coaches to participate in a preseason sport psychology workshop.
B)Require all parents to participate in a preseason training session on how to make youth sport a positive experience.
C)Reduce the importance of winning in youth sports.
D)All of the above.

Question 9

Which of the following is not an antecedent of sport commitment?

A)Sport enjoyment.
B)Valuable opportunities.
C)Personal investments.
D)Summer employment.

Question 10

Compared to nonschool sponsored youth sport programs,school sport programs generally have the advantage of

A)Dedicated facilities.
B)Qualified coaches.
C)Qualified parents.
D)a and b above.

Question 11

Which of the following is not a strategy that may be used by youth sport program organizers to de-emphasize the importance of winning?

A)Allow all teams to go into a playoff round at the end of the season.
B)Employ a "draft" system that ensures equal distribution of skilled and physically developed participants.
C)Playing time is equalized and each member of a team receives an equal opportunity to start the game.
D)Require that each member of a team get a chance to play in every game,but let the players decide who gets to start a game and who gets the most playing time.

Question 12

Compared to engaged and committed swimmers,which of the following is not true relative to dropouts?

A)Dropouts participated in less extra-curricular activities.
B)Engaged swimmers started training camps and dry land training at an earlier age.
C)Dropouts became "top" swimmers at a younger age and took less time off from swimming.
D)Engaged and dropout swimmers did not differ in terms of swim practice time or swim competition time.

Question 13

Most incidences of violence in youth sport involves

A)Youth participants.
B)Coaches.
C)Officials.
D)Parents.

Question 14

Compared to engaged and committed swimmers,which of the following in not true relative to dropouts?

A)Engaged swimmers reported being the youngest in training camps more often than dropout swimmers.
B)Engaged swimmers experienced more one-on-one coaching time.
C)Dropouts participated in less extra-curricular activities.
D)Dropouts spoke more often of demanding parents,early peak performance,and lack of swimming friends.

Question 15

Which of the following is not a legitimate benefit associated with parents (usually fathers)serving as youth sport coaches?

A)Coaches son/daughter gets favorable treatment (playing time,etc. ).
B)Parent enjoys quality time with their own child while at the same time teaching other children about sport.
C)Parents are motivated to provide a quality experience for a group of youth when their own son/daughter is involved.
D)None of the above.

Question 16

Which of the following is not a top five reason children give for participation in sport?

A)Winning.
B)Have fun and enjoy participation.
C)Become physically fit and enjoy good health.
D)Learn new sport skills.

Question 17

Which of the following does not lead to a youth sport participant experiencing stress and anxiety associated with the youth sport experience?

A)Excessive emphasis upon winning as opposed to enjoyment.
B)Parental pressure for child to perform well.
C)Coach creating a mastery climate for practices and games.
D)Coach creating a performance climate for practices and games.

Question 18

A young athlete decides to give up swimming so that he/she can focus upon playing basketball.

A)General sport dropout.
B)Not a sport dropout.
C)Specific sport dropout.
D)None of the above.

Question 19

Which of the following is an underlying psychological reason for withdrawing from youth sports participation?

A)Anxiety associated with too much emphasis upon winning.
B)Participation is not fun.
C)Poor team atmosphere.
D)Lack of physical activity.

Question 20

Why is winning so important to many youth sport coaches?

A)This is the best way to help children gain a love for sport.
B)Winning indicates that each participant has improved his/her sport skills.
C)They may possess an ego goal orientation towards sport participation.
D)They may possess a mastery goal orientation towards sport participation.

Question 21

In developing a youth sport program of any type,what should be the two overarching goals?

A)Sport enjoyment,develop prosocial behavior.
B)Sport enjoyment,learn and improve on skills.
C)Develop prosocial behavior,enjoy team atmosphere and make friends.
D)Develop performance goal orientation,winning attitude.

Question 22

Which of the following is not found in the parent's code of conduct relative to youth sports?

A)I will remain in the spectator area during games.
B)I will not direct derogatory comments toward coaches,officials,or players of either team.
C)I will sit passively in the spectator area while my child is performing.
D)I will be in control of my emotions at all times.

Question 23

Commercial enterprise in which the stated goals are to entertain and to make money.

A)Youth sport model.
B)Professional model.
C)Collegiate model.
D)None of the above.

Question 24

Which of the following factors increases poor sport behavior in youth sports?

A)Coach's good sport behavior.
B)Spectators' good sport behavior.
C)Parent disappointed in child's poor sport behavior.
D)Teammates' poor sport behavior.

Question 25

Which of the following statements is false relative to parental involvement in youth sport activities?

A)Female athletes are more likely to have parents who participate in athletics than are female non-athletes.
B)Parental beliefs are positively related to children's own competency beliefs,interests,and participation.
C)Parental encouragement is positively related to children's sport involvement.
D)Under-involvement by parents can contribute to children's negative emotional reactions to sports and ultimately to athlete burnout.

Question 26

A mastery motivational climate created by the coach

A)Has the potential of changing an athletes' goal orientation.
B)Cannot influence or change a personality disposition such as goal orientation.
C)Has the potential of causing an athlete to become more task goal oriented.
D)Is desirable for youth sport participants.

Question 27

Prior to becoming a youth sport head coach,most youth sport head coaches had

A)Coaching experience.
B)Playing experience in the sport.
C)Experience at developing a mastery learning environment.
D)a and b above.

Question 28

A parent comes to define his own sense of self-worth in terms of the success and failure of his son or daughter.

A)A desirable situation,as it promotes closeness between parent and child.
B)A situation that rarely occurs in sport.
C)The reversed-dependency trap.
D)None of the above.

Question 29

During the _____________ the athlete would focus their time and energy on a minimum of two or three sports with none of them overlapping significantly with the others in terms of season of the year.

A)Investment years.
B)Sampling years.
C)Specialization years.
D)Middle school years.

Question 30

Which of the following is single most important predictor or antecedent of sport commitment?

A)Personal investments.
B)Social Constraints.
C)Sport enjoyment.
D)Competitive excitement.

Question 31

According to the developmental model of sport participation,youth sport athletes should pass through the following stages of sport development in order of presentation:

A)Investment,sampling,specialization.
B)No interest,strong interest,reduced interest.
C)Team sports,individual sports,self-selected sports.
D)Sampling,specialization,investment.

Question 32

Possession of external and internal developmental assets should lead to the possession of the five C's of youth sport development.Which of the following is not one of these five?

A)Competence.
B)Cognition.
C)Confidence.
D)Connection.

Question 33

Which of the following is not a socializing effect that a child's involvement in youth sport has upon parents?

A)Parent becomes increasingly disinterested in their child's sport involvement.
B)Parent actively participates with youth,coaches,and other parents.
C)Parent becomes aware of child's goals and aspirations.
D)Parent gets emotionally involved in management of the youth sport program.

Question 34

Strong and healthy friendship among sport participants (peers)is associated with all but one of the following.Identify the lone outlier.

A)Antisocial behavior.
B)Perceived competence.
C)Enjoyment.
D)Self-determined motivation.

Question 35

Parents mean well,but in an effort to motivate their child they may resort to three kinds of behavior in response to perceived failure on the part of their child.Which of the following is not one of the three socialization practices?

A)Punitive behavior.
B)Controlling behavior.
C)Dismissive behavior.
D)Excessively high expectations.