OCR GCSE PE sports psychology (Component 02) overview quiz quiz

A pass in a football match

A tackle in rugby

A free throw in basketball

Dribbling past a defender

Because there are only ever two completely separate types of skill

Because a continuum is much easier and quicker for a teacher to draw

Because all skills in every sport are exactly the same as one another

Because most skills fall somewhere between the two extremes

Measurable

Motivating

Maximal

Manual

An outcome goal about winning

A performance goal

A shared team goal for everyone

A long-term seasonal goal

Performance just keeps on improving the more aroused the performer gets

Performance is completely unaffected by how high the arousal level becomes

Performance declines because of anxiety, tension and poor decisions

The performer becomes so relaxed that they simply fall fast asleep

Selective attention to cues

Progressive overload in training

Knowledge of results feedback

Visualisation (imagery)

Visual guidance (a demonstration), often supported by verbal

Detailed and complicated verbal guidance given entirely on its own

No guidance at all, leaving the beginner to work it out alone

Repeated negative feedback pointing out everything done wrong

Feedback about the final outcome or result of the action only

Feedback about the quality of the technique used

Feedback that only a complete beginner is able to make use of

Feedback that comes from the watching crowd in the stadium

Output, input, feedback, decision making

Decision making, input, feedback, output

Input, decision making, output, feedback

Feedback, output, decision making, input

It completely replaces the need for any input coming in from the senses at all

It only ever matters for elite performers and not for any beginners

It slows the performer down and gets in the way of their performance

It is fed back into memory so the performer can correct errors and improve