SQA Higher PE Emotional Factors overview quiz quiz

Muscular endurance built through circuit training

Speed developed through interval sprints

Fear and anxiety about the outcome of a performance

Flexibility worked on through dynamic stretching

Emotional control, keeping each emotion at a helpful level

Removing all emotion before any performance

Maximising aerobic fitness above all else

Always playing as aggressively as possible

It always improves focus on the game plan

It has no measurable effect on play

It permanently increases a performer's fitness

It leads to rash decisions, fouls and a loss of focus

Fear is a response to a perceived threat, while anxiety is worry about the outcome

Fear only happens in team sports, anxiety only in individual sports

Fear improves performance, anxiety always destroys it

There is no difference; they are exactly the same thing

Looser muscles and a wider focus of attention

Muscle tension, narrowed attention and tentative or rushed actions

A guaranteed improvement in decision-making

Increased enjoyment and willingness to take risks

It removes the need to prepare for a performance

It makes a performer ignore the opposition completely

A performer is willing to attempt skills, is decisive and recovers after mistakes

It guarantees a performer will win every contest

Because confidence slows a performer's reactions

Because confidence reduces muscular strength

Because confidence prevents teamwork

Because over-confidence brings complacency and careless decisions

Relaxation and breathing techniques to lower arousal and release tension

Plyometric training to build power

Fartlek training to vary running intensity

Static stretching to improve flexibility

It increases their maximum heart rate

It replaces negative thoughts with constructive cues

It improves their flexibility at the joints

It builds their cardiorespiratory endurance

Avoiding all training so a performer stays fresh

Only ever competing against far weaker opponents

Setting and achieving progressive, realistic targets in training

Refusing to review any past performances

Because emotions cannot be changed in any way

Because only physical factors matter to performance

Because emotion is banned by the rules of most sports

Because controlled aggression and mild apprehension can actually help performance

A performer gathers information on their responses, selects an approach, trains it and monitors the emotion

Emotional factors cannot be developed or monitored at all

The emotional factor replaces the need to develop fitness

Emotional factors only matter during the warm-up

Treating a setback as a challenge rather than a threat, reducing fear

Ignoring the setback and pretending it did not happen

Blaming a team-mate for the setback

Increasing the intensity of physical training only