Confidence and Self-Efficacy | Edexcel A-Level Physical Education (9PE0)
Confidence and Self-Efficacy
- 57 questions
- 4 subtopics
- Component 2: psychological and social principles of physical education
- Component 2
Confidence and Self-Efficacy is examined in Component 2, Psychological and social principles of physical education.
It covers self-confidence and its effect on performance, Vealey's model of sport confidence, Bandura's four sources of self-efficacy and learned helplessness.
Sample questions from Confidence and Self-Efficacy
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Self-confidence and its effect on performance
How can low self-confidence harm performance?
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Low confidence brings worry, low effort and avoidance of difficult tasks. The performer may fear failure and choke. -
Self-confidence and its effect on performance
How can a coach build a performer's confidence before a competition?
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The coach can set realistic goals and praise successes in training. Mental rehearsal of past successes also helps. -
Vealey's model of sport confidence
What is competitive orientation in Vealey's model?
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Competitive orientation is the type of goal that makes a performer feel successful. Some performers are oriented towards performing well and others towards winning. -
Vealey's model of sport confidence
How do subjective outcomes feed back into Vealey's model?
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Positive subjective outcomes raise trait sport confidence and strengthen competitive orientation. Negative outcomes lower trait sport confidence for the future. -
Bandura's four sources of self-efficacy
What are vicarious experiences?
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Vicarious experiences come from watching another performer succeed at the task. The observer gains belief that they can do it too. -
Bandura's four sources of self-efficacy
What is emotional arousal in Bandura's model?
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Emotional arousal is the performer's perception of their physical and emotional state before performing. Arousal interpreted as anxiety lowers self-efficacy. -
Learned helplessness
Who first described learned helplessness?
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Seligman first described learned helplessness in the 1960s. Seligman's animals stopped trying to escape after repeated shocks they could not control. -
Learned helplessness
Why can an early heavy defeat trigger learned helplessness?
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A novice with little experience of success may see a heavy defeat as proof of low ability. The novice then expects the same outcome every time.
The 4 subtopics
One subtopic is one session. Work down the list.
| Subtopic | What it covers | Questions |
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| Self-confidence and its effect on performance | Self-confidence and self-efficacy, the effects of high and low confidence, anxiety, overconfidence, achievement motivation, attention, signs of low confidence, experts and novices, tactics, and building confidence before competition. | 13 |
| Vealey's model of sport confidence | Trait and state sport confidence, the objective sport situation, competitive orientation, performance and outcome orientations, the behavioural response and subjective outcomes, the tennis player and the club golfer. | 15 |
| Bandura's four sources of self-efficacy | Past accomplishments, vicarious experiences with a model of similar ability, verbal persuasion and control of emotional arousal, the young diver before her first competition, and why self-efficacy is situation-specific. | 15 |
| Learned helplessness | Global and specific learned helplessness, how it develops, Seligman, its effects on performance, participation and emotions, the need to avoid failure, self-efficacy, the netball shooter who stops shooting, and prevention and recovery. | 14 |
How the guide is worked
Answering a question from memory stores it far better than reading the answer again. The guide runs that as a fixed procedure on one subtopic at a time, about twenty minutes a session.
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Step 1 · Closed book
Cover the answers. Work through one subtopic and write down what you can. Leave blanks where you have nothing.
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Step 2 · Open book
Go back to the top. Read each printed answer and write it out in full, including the ones you had right.
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Step 3 · Closed book again
Same questions, same order, from memory. The gap between pass one and pass three is the session result.
Read the full method, the return schedule and the research behind it.
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