Ethics and Deviance in Sport | Edexcel A-Level Physical Education (9PE0)
Ethics and Deviance in Sport
- 48 questions
- 4 subtopics
- Component 2: psychological and social principles of physical education
- Component 2
Ethics and Deviance in Sport is examined in Component 2, Psychological and social principles of physical education.
It covers ethics, sportsmanship and gamesmanship, performance-enhancing drugs from early use to today, simulation, bribery, bungs and match fixing and responses to deviance and the role of WADA.
Sample questions from Ethics and Deviance in Sport
Answer each one closed book first, then open the answer.
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Ethics, sportsmanship and gamesmanship
What pressures can lead performers to behave in a deviant way?
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Performers face pressure from coaches, sponsors, fans and the rewards of winning. The fear of failure can push them to cheat. -
Ethics, sportsmanship and gamesmanship
What is the Lombardian ethic?
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The Lombardian ethic is the belief that winning is everything. The ethic is named after the American football coach Vince Lombardi. -
Performance-enhancing drugs from early use to today
What is blood doping?
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Blood doping is raising the number of red blood cells to carry more oxygen. A performer's own or a donor's blood is transfused before competition. -
Performance-enhancing drugs from early use to today
Why are anabolic steroids used by some performers?
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Anabolic steroids increase muscle mass and strength. Steroids also allow harder training by speeding recovery. -
Simulation, bribery, bungs and match fixing
What are bungs in sport?
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Bungs are secret illegal payments, often made during player transfers. Agents or managers may take a cut of a transfer fee. -
Simulation, bribery, bungs and match fixing
Why is match fixing especially damaging to sport?
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A fixed match has no genuine uncertainty of result. Spectators lose faith that the contest is real. -
Responses to deviance and the role of WADA
How has technology been used to combat deviance?
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Video review catches foul play and simulation. Improved drug tests and the biological passport help detect doping. -
Responses to deviance and the role of WADA
What is the athlete biological passport?
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The biological passport is a long-term record of a performer's blood and urine markers. Suspicious changes can reveal doping.
The 4 subtopics
One subtopic is one session. Work down the list.
| Subtopic | What it covers | Questions |
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| Ethics, sportsmanship and gamesmanship | Ethics, sportsmanship, gamesmanship and deviance, the pressures on performers and spectators, commercialisation and the sportsmanship ethic, the Lombardian ethic, and examples from football and tennis. | 12 |
| Performance-enhancing drugs from early use to today | Early drug use, Thomas Hicks in 1904, Tom Simpson in 1967, the start of Olympic testing, blood doping, diuretics, pain relief, anabolic steroids, EPO, the Festina affair of 1998, and why doping continues. | 12 |
| Simulation, bribery, bungs and match fixing | Simulation and its punishment, bribery, bungs, match fixing and spot fixing, betting syndicates, other contemporary deviance, commercial pressure, and why deviance is hard to eliminate. | 12 |
| Responses to deviance and the role of WADA | Responses by national and international governing bodies, governments and the law, technology, the World Anti-Doping Agency and its code, national anti-doping agencies, the athlete biological passport, whereabouts and WADA's limits. | 12 |
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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