The Drive Theory, The Inverted-U Theory, The Catastrophe Theory
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What does the Drive Theory suggest?
That the higher the arousal of the performer the higher the performance level.
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What does the Inverted-U Theory suggest?
As arousal increases so does performance up until optimal arousal then performance decreases.
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What are the three factors that can effect the Inverted-U Theory?
Personality e.g. extrovert/introvert, skill level e.g. cognitive, types of activites.
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What causes the 'catastrophe' in the catastrophe theory?
If the somatic level and the cognitive level of anxiety are too high the catastrophe occurs.
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What is somatic and cognitive anxiety?
Cognitive anxiety is the anxiety of the mind and somatic anxiety is anxiety of the body.
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What is different between the Inverted-U Theory and the Catastrophe Theory?
The catastrophe theory suggests that you can control the arousal level again and decrease it so that it returns to the graph where as the inverted-u theory does not show a recovery.
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What is optinum arousal?
The highest point at which the perfromer is performing at there best.
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What is the dominant response and when is most likely to occur?
The domiant response is learned information or behaviours stored in the motor programme and is more likely to occur in higher arousals according to the Drive Theory.
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Card 2
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What does the Drive Theory suggest?
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That the higher the arousal of the performer the higher the performance level.
Card 3
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What does the Inverted-U Theory suggest?
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Card 4
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What are the three factors that can effect the Inverted-U Theory?
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Card 5
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What causes the 'catastrophe' in the catastrophe theory?
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