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
Social Facilitation
- 3 subtopics
- 9 things to know
- Components 1 and 2
What Social Facilitation covers
Social Facilitation is examined in both papers, since Component 1 and Component 2 can each examine any of the content. It covers audiences, co-actors and performance, theories of social facilitation and home field advantage and reducing social inhibition.
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.
- Audiences, co-actors and performanceSocial facilitation and inhibition, co-actors and passive audiences, how an audience helps or hinders, novices and experts, type of skill, personality and whether audiences always improve performance.Open →
- Theories of social facilitationZajonc's drive theory and the dominant response, evaluation apprehension, distraction-conflict theory, self-presentation theory and choking, and the link with the inverted-U theory.Open →
- Home field advantage and reducing social inhibitionHome field advantage and when it turns against a team, and reducing social inhibition through selective attention, practice with an audience, mental rehearsal, stress management, private learning and grooving skills.Open →
What you need to know
Answer each one before you reveal it.
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Who are co-actors and a passive audience? Give an example of each.
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How can an audience improve or worsen performance?
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What is drive theory of social facilitation?
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What is a dominant response?
Evaluation
What is home field advantage?
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What is social facilitation?
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Who applied drive theory to social facilitation?
Evaluation
What factors create home field advantage?
Take Social Facilitation further
The same content, four other ways.
Commonly confused
Pairs that lose marks when they are blurred together.
Social facilitation vs Social inhibition
Social facilitation: better performance because others are present. Social inhibition: worse performance because others are present.
Co-actors vs Passive audience
Co-actors: people doing the same task alongside a performer. Passive audience: people watching without interacting.
Drive theory vs Evaluation apprehension
Drive theory: the view that mere presence of others raises arousal. Evaluation apprehension: the view that arousal rises only when a person feels judged.
Questions from this topic
Each one with the model answer underneath.
- 1
What is social facilitation?
Model answer
Social facilitation is the improvement in performance caused by the presence of others. The presence of others raises arousal.
- 2
What is social inhibition?
Model answer
Social inhibition is the decline in performance caused by the presence of others. Novices are especially affected.
- 3
What are co-actors?
Model answer
Co-actors are people doing the same task at the same time but not competing directly. Other runners at a training session are co-actors.
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What is a passive audience?
Model answer
A passive audience is people watching without interacting. Spectators at a match form a passive audience.
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How can an audience improve performance?
Model answer
An audience raises arousal, which helps simple and well-learned skills. Experienced performers often perform better in front of crowds.
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How can an audience worsen performance?
Model answer
Raised arousal can disrupt complex or new skills. Novices may make more mistakes in front of others.
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Social Facilitation revision questions
- What does Social Facilitation cover in Eduqas A-Level Physical Education?
- 3 subtopics: audiences, co-actors and performance, theories of social facilitation and home field advantage and reducing social inhibition. Each one has its own page with questions and model answers.
- How is Social Facilitation organised?
- By the Eduqas A550QS specification, subtopic by subtopic, so it matches the order you are taught it in.
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