SQA Higher PE Mental Factors overview quiz quiz

Cardiorespiratory endurance measured by a multi-stage fitness test

Decision-making, the selecting and timing of the best response

Muscular strength developed through resistance training

Flexibility worked on through static stretching routines

Choosing the most appropriate response from the options and timing it correctly

Repeating the same skill over and over until it becomes automatic

The maximum force a muscle group can produce in one effort

The range of movement available at a joint during a skill

The colour of the playing kit being worn

The size of the crowd watching the match

Experience, which lets a performer recognise patterns and anticipate

The brand of equipment a performer chooses to use

The total energy a performer uses across a whole game

The speed at which a performer can sprint over a short distance

The number of substitutions a team is allowed to make

Sustaining attention on the relevant information and filtering out distractions

Picking up the important signals in a performance and ignoring the irrelevant ones

Recovering quickly between bouts of high-intensity exercise

Stretching the muscles fully before a performance begins

Memorising the rules and regulations of an activity

Being as relaxed as possible with no readiness at all

Being alert and energised without becoming tense, where best performance happens

Being as tense and fired up as a performer can possibly be

Having no emotional response to the performance whatsoever

Sharper reactions and better focus than at any other time

A perfectly timed, fluent and powerful performance

Complacency and slow reactions, such as a defender ball-watching

Tension and rushed actions, such as snatching at a shot

Calm, complacent play with very slow reactions

No change at all to the quality of performance

An automatic improvement in technique and timing

Tension, rushed actions and the risk of panic

Staying focused, confident and composed under pressure and recovering from setbacks

Being physically strong enough to win every fifty-fifty challenge

Having the highest level of cardiovascular fitness in the team

Following every rule of the activity without ever being penalised

It guarantees a performer never makes any mistakes at all

It removes the need for any physical fitness whatsoever

A performer holds their game plan and resets after a mistake in a close finish

It makes a performer ignore all the cues around them

Continuous training to raise aerobic fitness

Positive self-talk that replaces negative thoughts with constructive cues

Plyometric jumps to build explosive power

Static stretching to increase the range of movement

Increase muscular endurance over a long season

Learn the rules of a new activity from scratch

Improve their maximum sprinting speed

Settle arousal near the optimum and re-focus attention before a skill

When a performer is fatigued or has just made a mistake

Only in the very first minute of any performance

When a performer has trained hard the day before

Only when a performer is winning comfortably

Because mental factors cannot actually be improved at all

Because a performer gathers information, selects an approach, trains it and monitors whether composure or decision quality improves

Because the mental factor replaces the need to develop physical fitness

Because mental factors are only relevant in individual activities