AQA A Level PE - Sports Psychology - Anxiety

Question 1

Disadvantages include- answers depend on mood, leading questions, socially acceptable answers

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Questionnaire

Question 2

Rises at start of performance and then decreases

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Somatic

Question 3

Disadvantages- specialist equipment, being tested may cause additional stress, lab situation?

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Physiological testing

Question 4

Temporary response to a particularly moment or situation

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Competitive State

Question 5

Advantages - factual, technology allows for real situation recording

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Physiological testing

Question 6

Involves monitoring physiological responses.

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Biofeedback

Question 7

These are the causes of stress.

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Stressor

Question 8

Fatigue, injury, large crowds, lack of preparation, high expectations are all examples of

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Stressors

Question 9

Physiological effects of stress

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Somatic

Question 10

has a more linear pattern of response before and during performance

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Cognitive

Question 11

Psychological effects of stress

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Cogkneetive, Cognitive

Question 12

Advantages - true to life, can be completed in real-life situation

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Observation

Question 13

Advantages- quick, cheap and efficient

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Questionnaire

Question 14

Self report questionnaire for measuring anxiety

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STAI

Question 15

A disposition to suffer nervousness in all/most sporting situations

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Competitive Trait

Question 16

Slow breaths and key word to reax (somatic and cognitive)

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Centring/breathing control

Question 17

Heart rate monitor

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Biofeedback

Question 18

Rises as performance approaches

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Somatic

Question 19

Highest in days before performance

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Cognitive

Question 20

An individual’s response to prepare the body for action when a threat is perceived.

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Stress

Question 21

Tensing each muscle, letting go of tension, core to outside or head to toe

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Progressive muscle relaxation

Question 22

Self report questionnaire for measuring anxiety

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SCAT

Question 23

Disadvantages-subjective, needs several people, time consuming, evaluation apprehension

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Observation

Question 24

This is the positive version of stress – For example: extreme sports such as sky diving.

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Eustress

Question 25

Self report questionnaire for measuring anxiety

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CSAI-2

AQA A Level PE - Sports Psychology - Anxiety

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AQA A Level PE - Sports Psychology - Anxiety

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