Social Facilitation | Edexcel A-Level Physical Education (9PE0)
Social Facilitation
- 46 questions
- 3 subtopics
- Component 2: psychological and social principles of physical education
- Component 2
Social Facilitation is examined in Component 2, Psychological and social principles of physical education.
It covers social facilitation, social inhibition and types of others, Zajonc's dominant response and evaluation apprehension and home advantage, distraction, proximity and coping with an audience.
Sample questions from Social Facilitation
Answer each one closed book first, then open the answer.
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Social facilitation, social inhibition and types of others
Who are passive others?
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Passive others are people present who do not compete against or respond to the performer. An audience and co-actors are passive others. -
Social facilitation, social inhibition and types of others
How can spectators become interactive others?
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Spectators interact when they shout, chant or barrack the performer. A hostile crowd jeering a penalty taker is an example. -
Zajonc's dominant response and evaluation apprehension
How does the inverted-U hypothesis explain the effect of an audience?
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The inverted-U suggests an audience helps until arousal reaches the optimum point. Beyond the optimum, extra arousal from the crowd makes performance decline. -
Zajonc's dominant response and evaluation apprehension
How does evaluation apprehension affect performance?
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Evaluation apprehension raises arousal and cognitive anxiety. A novice or anxious performer may then choke or make more errors. -
Home advantage, distraction, proximity and coping with an audience
Why can a home crowd sometimes harm the home team?
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High expectations from a home crowd can raise evaluation apprehension. Players may choke under the pressure of performing in front of their own fans. -
Home advantage, distraction, proximity and coping with an audience
How can a coach familiarise a performer with an audience to reduce social inhibition?
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A coach can introduce spectators or recorded crowd noise into training. The performer grows used to being watched, so arousal rises less on the day.
The 3 subtopics
One subtopic is one session. Work down the list.
| Subtopic | What it covers | Questions |
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| Social facilitation, social inhibition and types of others | Social facilitation and inhibition, positive and negative audience effects, passive others, co-actors, audiences and interactive others, rivals in a 1500 m race, Triplett's cyclists of 1898, and introverts and extroverts in front of a crowd. | 14 |
| Zajonc's dominant response and evaluation apprehension | Zajonc's 1965 model and the dominant response, experts and novices, the inverted-U hypothesis, simple, gross, complex and fine skills, the shot putter and the darts player, and Cottrell's evaluation apprehension with its blindfolded audience. | 16 |
| Home advantage, distraction, proximity and coping with an audience | Significant others, home-field advantage and matches behind closed doors, the distraction effect and distraction-conflict theory, the proximity effect, familiarisation, selective attention, overlearning and stress management. | 16 |
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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