OCR A-Level Physical Education H555
Skeletal and Muscular Systems
The Cardiovascular System
The Respiratory System
Energy for Exercise
Environmental Effects on Body Systems
Diet, Nutrition and Ergogenic Aids
Aerobic Training
Strength and Flexibility Training
Periodisation of Training
Training and Lifestyle Diseases
Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation
Biomechanical Principles and Levers
Linear and Angular Motion
Fluid Mechanics and Projectile Motion
Skill Classification, Practice and Transfer
Theories and Stages of Learning
Guidance and Feedback
Memory Models
Personality and Attitudes
Motivation and Arousal
Anxiety
Aggression
Social Facilitation and Group Dynamics
Goal Setting
Attribution
Confidence and Self-Efficacy
Leadership
Stress Management
Sport in Pre-Industrial and Industrial Britain
Sport in the 20th and 21st Centuries
The Olympic Games and Global Sporting Events
Drugs in Sport
Violence and Gambling in Sport
Commercialisation and the Media
Routes to Sporting Excellence
Social Facilitation and Group Dynamics
Groups and Tuckman's stages of development
- 3 things to know
- Component 02
Overview
Groups and why a crowd is not one, task and social cohesion, Tuckman's forming, storming, norming and performing stages, the hockey squad, the promoted football team and slipping back a stage.
What you need to know
Answer each one before you reveal it.
What is group cohesion, and how do task and social cohesion differ?
What is a group in sports psychology?
Questions from this subtopic
Each one with the model answer underneath.
- 1
What is a group in sports psychology?
Model answer
A group is two or more people who interact, share common goals and have a collective identity. Members communicate and are aware of one another.
- 2
Why is a crowd of spectators not a group in this sense?
Model answer
Spectators do not usually interact with one another towards a shared task. A group needs interaction and shared goals, not just a shared location.
- 3
Give three characteristics of a group.
Model answer
A group has interaction between members, shared goals and a collective identity.
- 4
What is group cohesion?
Model answer
Group cohesion is the tendency of a group to stick together in pursuit of its goals. Cohesion can be task-based or social.
- 5
What is the difference between task cohesion and social cohesion?
Model answer
Task cohesion is members working together to achieve a shared goal. Social cohesion is members liking one another and enjoying each other's company.
- 6
Who proposed the four stages of group development, and when?
Model answer
Bruce Tuckman proposed the stages of group development in 1965. The four stages are forming, storming, norming and performing.
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