Key term
Eduqas A-Level Physical Education A550QS
Health, Fitness and an Active Lifestyle
Short-Term Responses to Exercise
Long-Term Adaptations to Exercise
Fitness Testing and Components of Fitness
Training Methods, Principles and Periodisation
Topic overviewSpecificity, progressive overload, reversibility, variance and FITTContinuous, fartlek, interval and high intensity trainingWeight, plyometric, circuit and flexibility trainingAltitude training and training in hot and cold climatesTraining zones, heart rate monitoring and periodisation
Energy Systems
Fatigue and Recovery
Diet, Nutrition and Supplements
Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation
Joints and the Musculo-Skeletal System
Planes, Axes and Movement Patterns
Biomechanical Principles and Levers
Linear and Angular Motion
Projectile Motion and Fluid Mechanics
Performance Analysis
Technology in Sport
Personality
Attitudes
Goal Setting
Stress, Arousal and Anxiety
Motivation
Aggression
Social Facilitation
Group Dynamics and Leadership
Attribution Theory
Self-Efficacy and Confidence
Skill, Ability and Skill Classification
Learning Curves, Theories and Stages
Transfer, Practice and Guidance
Information Processing, Memory and Feedback
Sport, Culture and Society
The Emergence of Modern Sport
Ethics, Deviance and Doping
Social Differentiation in Sport
Sport and the Mass Media
Commercialisation and Globalisation
Self-Efficacy and Confidence
- 3 subtopics
- 9 things to know
- Components 1 and 2
What Self-Efficacy and Confidence covers
Self-Efficacy and Confidence is examined in both papers, since Component 1 and Component 2 can each examine any of the content. It covers self-efficacy, self-confidence and self-esteem, Bandura's four sources of self-efficacy and developing self-efficacy.
Where it is assessed
Components 1 and 2
Either 2 hour written paper, each worth 35% of the A level, can examine this.
Check the Eduqas specification ↗The 3 subtopics
Each one has its own page.
- Self-efficacy, self-confidence and self-esteemSelf-efficacy, self-confidence and self-esteem, expectations of success, the effects of low self-efficacy, variation within one performer, positive attitudes and participation.Open →
- Bandura's four sources of self-efficacyBandura's theory, performance accomplishments, vicarious experiences with similar models, verbal persuasion and what makes it work, emotional arousal and how it lowers self-efficacy, and how the sources link.Open →
- Developing self-efficacyBuilding self-efficacy through each source of self-efficacy, goal setting and mental rehearsal, pupils with low confidence, unfavourable comparisons, attribution and the link to performance.Open →
What you need to know
Answer each one before you reveal it.
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How is self-efficacy linked to attribution and to performance?
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What are self-confidence and self-esteem?
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Who developed the theory of self-efficacy?
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What are the four sources of self-efficacy?
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How can a coach use performance accomplishments to build self-efficacy?
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What is self-efficacy?
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What are performance accomplishments?
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How can a coach use vicarious experiences to build self-efficacy?
Take Self-Efficacy and Confidence further
The same content, four other ways.
Commonly confused
Pairs that lose marks when they are blurred together.
Self-efficacy vs Self-esteem
Self-efficacy: belief in one's ability to succeed at a particular task. Self-esteem: how a person values their own worth overall.
Vicarious experience vs Verbal persuasion
Vicarious experience: watching a similar person succeed. Verbal persuasion: being told by others that one can succeed.
Performance accomplishments vs Emotional arousal
Performance accomplishments: past successes at the same task. Emotional arousal: how a performer interprets feelings of anxiety.
Questions from this topic
Each one with the model answer underneath.
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What is self-efficacy?
Model answer
Self-efficacy is a performer's belief in their ability to succeed in a specific situation. It is situation-specific confidence.
- 2
What is self-confidence?
Model answer
Self-confidence is a general belief in one's ability to succeed. Self-confidence applies across many situations.
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What is self-esteem?
Model answer
Self-esteem is how a person values themselves overall. Success and failure in sport can raise or lower self-esteem.
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How does self-efficacy differ from self-confidence?
Model answer
Self-efficacy relates to one task, such as taking a penalty. Self-confidence is broader and more general.
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Why is self-efficacy important for performance?
Model answer
Performers with high self-efficacy try harder and persist longer. Belief in success makes success more likely.
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How does self-efficacy link to expectations of success?
Model answer
High self-efficacy leads a performer to expect to succeed. The expectation encourages effort and approach behaviour.
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Self-Efficacy and Confidence revision questions
- What does Self-Efficacy and Confidence cover in Eduqas A-Level Physical Education?
- 3 subtopics: self-efficacy, self-confidence and self-esteem, bandura's four sources of self-efficacy and developing self-efficacy. Each one has its own page with questions and model answers.
- How is Self-Efficacy and Confidence organised?
- By the Eduqas A550QS specification, subtopic by subtopic, so it matches the order you are taught it in.
Every question in Self-Efficacy and Confidence, on a schedule.
Attempt a question from memory, write the correct version, then attempt it again. Levo records the jump between your first attempt and your last, and brings each question back on the day you are due to forget it.
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