6 exam-style questions with full mark schemes and model answers. Write your own answer and the AI examiner marks it against the mark scheme.
Learn this properly: Skill and AbilityA coach notices that one of their athletes performs poorly when under-aroused in training, but also "freezes" and makes mistakes when over-aroused in big competitions.
Explain, using the inverted-U theory, how a performer's level of arousal affects their performance. In your answer, explain why performance is poor at low and at high arousal, and explain why the optimal level of arousal may differ between a gross skill and a fine skill. (6 marks)
Skills can be classified on continua. Two such continua are open–closed and gross–fine.
(a) A basketball free throw is taken with a stationary ball in a stable, unchanging environment. State where this skill sits on the open–closed continuum, and justify your answer. (2 marks)
(b) Explain the difference between a gross skill and a fine skill, giving a sporting example of each. (2 marks)
A coach helps a performer set a target using the SMART principle.
(a) State what the letters S, M and T stand for in the SMART principle of goal setting. (3 marks — one for each letter)
A novice trampolinist is learning a new routine. Their coach uses different types of guidance to help them.
(a) Name the type of guidance being used when the coach physically supports and moves the performer's body through the correct movement. (1 mark)
(b) Name the type of guidance being used when the coach demonstrates the skill for the performer to watch, and give one reason why this type is useful for a beginner. (2 marks)
Performers can be motivated in different ways. Motivation can be intrinsic or extrinsic.
(a) State what is meant by intrinsic motivation. (1 mark)
(b) Give one example of an extrinsic motivator. (1 mark)
Name the first stage of the basic information-processing model, in which a performer takes in information from their surroundings using their senses. (1 mark)