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Factors impacting on performance

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How does a performer turn data about a factor into a development plan and improved performance?

Analysing and developing performance: the cyclical analysis process, setting goals from data, principles of effective practice, methods and models of practice, principles of training, and monitoring and evaluating development.
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How do emotions affect performance, and how can a performer manage them under pressure?

Emotional factors impacting on performance: managing anger and aggression, fear and apprehension, happiness, sadness and frustration, resilience, and the approaches used to regulate them.
An SQA Advanced Higher Physical Education answer on emotional factors, covering anger and aggression, fear and apprehension, happiness, sadness and frustration, resilience, and the approaches a performer uses to regulate emotions, with worked exam-style answers.
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How do mental factors influence performance, and how can a performer manage them at the highest level?

Mental factors impacting on performance: level of arousal and the inverted-U, anxiety (cognitive and somatic), concentration and attention, decision-making, mental toughness, and the approaches used to develop them.
An SQA Advanced Higher Physical Education answer on mental factors, covering level of arousal and the inverted-U, cognitive and somatic anxiety, concentration and attentional focus, decision-making, mental toughness, and the approaches used to develop each, with worked exam-style answers.
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How does a performer gather valid and reliable information about the factors impacting their performance?

Methods of collecting information on factors impacting performance: qualitative and quantitative methods, observation schedules and video analysis, questionnaires and self-report inventories, standardised fitness tests, comparison with a model performer, and the reliability and validity of data.
An SQA Advanced Higher Physical Education answer on collecting information about factors impacting performance, covering qualitative and quantitative methods, observation schedules and video analysis, questionnaires and self-report inventories, standardised fitness tests, comparison with a model performer, and the reliability and validity of data, with worked exam-style answers.
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How do fitness, skills and tactics combine to determine the quality of a performance?

Physical factors impacting on performance: physical and skill-related fitness, skill level and skill classification, tactics and composition, and how these sub-factors interact within a performance.
An SQA Advanced Higher Physical Education answer on physical factors, covering physical and skill-related fitness, skill level and classification, tactics and composition, and how these sub-factors interact to determine performance, with worked exam-style answers.
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How do social factors such as group dynamics and roles affect performance?

Social factors impacting on performance: group and team dynamics, cooperation and competition, roles and responsibilities, group cohesion (task and social) and its development, and the influence of others on performance.
An SQA Advanced Higher Physical Education answer on social factors, covering group and team dynamics, cooperation and competition, roles and responsibilities, task and social cohesion and how to develop it, and the influence of others on performance, with worked exam-style answers.
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