Key research: Fazey and Hardy - the intervted U hypothesis; a catastrophe for sport psychology

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what were they critical of?
the early inverted U
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what did they think about early researchers?
that they treated arousal and anxiety as if they were the same
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what is the method, sample and procedure?
it doesn't have any as its a theoretical paper
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what was the aim of this paper?
to discuss the flaws of the inverted U
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what was one of the issues with the basic construct of the model?
it was looking at abstract themes, therefore they are difficult to measure
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what did they argue that stress is?
when someone see's something as threat
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what does the inverted U model not do?
distinguish between different types of anxiety
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what is state anxiety?
refers to anxiety levels in certain situations
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what is somatic state anxiety?
refers to the physiological state that is impacting performace
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what is cognitive state anxiety?
refers to negative thought processes
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what is trait anxiety?
this is fixed and refers to a persons general disposition
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whats the issue with previous research?
they did not consider the impact of these different types of anxiety
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whats the issue with Fazey and Hardys own research?
could not be applied to real life situations
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why could it not be applied to real life situations?
because they need to significantly decrease their stress levels to regain perforamce, but cannot do this while playing in real life.
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what did Fazey and Hardy develop?
the Catastrophe model
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whose research did they use?
Parfitt and Hardy
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who were the participants?
16 male basketball players from Bangorr University who all played in the North wales league
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what did the experiement group do?
They were tested before matches
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what did the control group do?
they were tested when they didnt have any matches
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what were they given to be tested?
the CSAI-2 to complete and a variety of tasks
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what did they find?
that cognitive anxiety improved performance, whilst somatic anxiety had a positive effect on height of jumps, but negative on short-term memory tasks
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what can it generate?
testable hypotheses
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what does it say about an atheletes level of cognitive anxiety?
it determines where the physiological arousal is
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what does their model suggest?
when low cognitive anxiety, performance will tail off gradually
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what is there is moderate levels of cognitive anxiety?
once over a certain point, there is a greater drop in performace
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what if there is a high cognitive anxiety?
when at a certain point, performance drops catastrophically
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what can we do when we are doing a alreay known task?
we can control our physiological arousal and use them to maximise
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what can we conclude about the inverted U?
it is flawed
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what does the catastrophe model offer?
a multi-dimensional approach to performace
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