Factors Impacting on Performance: SQA Advanced Higher Physical Education quiz quiz

It keeps improving without limit

It stays exactly the same

It improves only for fine skills

It declines

Worrying thoughts and self-doubt

A stable personality trait only

Physical symptoms such as a raised heart rate and muscular tension

The same as arousal

Fine, complex, accuracy skills such as a golf putt

Gross, powerful actions such as a sprint start

Continuous skills such as cycling

Discrete, simple actions such as a forward roll

The ability to perform consistently near the top of one's ability despite pressure and setbacks

A measure of muscular strength

The same as physical fitness

A method of collecting data

Cognitive restructuring

Goal setting

Controlled breathing and centring

Watching a model performer

It narrows attention onto the trigger, raises arousal past the optimum and can cause reckless or foul actions

It always improves decision-making

It lowers heart rate too far

It has no measurable effect

Avoid all setbacks entirely

Increase muscular power

Recover quickly from setbacks and keep pursuing goals

Measure their own reaction time

Open cohesion and closed cohesion

Physical cohesion and mental cohesion

Primary cohesion and secondary cohesion

Task cohesion and social cohesion

Social cohesion

Task cohesion

They are always equal

Neither has any effect

They guarantee victory regardless of skill

They remove the need for tactics

They reduce confusion, overlap and conflict and raise task cohesion

They lower the players' fitness requirements

Cardiorespiratory endurance, strength, flexibility

Agility, balance, coordination, power, reaction time

Speed, muscular endurance, strength

Tactics, composition, decision-making

Stable and predictable

Changing and unpredictable

Always indoors

Free of any opponents

Quantitative data show how much or how often, while qualitative data explain why and how well

Qualitative data are always more accurate

Quantitative data cannot be compared over time

It is required only for social factors

Reliability means measuring the right thing; validity means consistency

They mean exactly the same thing

Reliability is consistency when repeated; validity is whether it measures the right, relevant thing

Validity applies only to fitness tests

A standardised agility run

A stopwatch

A tape measure

A questionnaire or self-report inventory

Because evaluation leads back into fresh analysis and further development

Because it can only be done once a year

Because it ignores the baseline data

Because it applies only to physical factors