Arousal 2017

Inverted U Theory - What does the optimal level of arousal depend on?

• Performance
• Skill level and opposition
• Personality of performer and skill level
• The environment

Inverted U Theory - Further increases to arousal from moderate levels can cause performance to ....

• Increase rapidly
• Deteriorate
• Drop rapidly
• Cause rising slowly

According to the Inverted U Theory, to perform at high arousal the sport you're competing in must be ....

• Fine and simple
• Complex and fine
• Complex and gross
• Gross and simple

Which one of these features does not affect Peak Flow?

• Poor mental preperation
• Environmental influences
• Subconscious experience 
• Injury and fatigue

According to the Drive Theory a novice performer would struggle to perform to high levels due to ...

• Crowd hostility
• Fatigue
• Incorrect dominant response
• Low levels of arousal

According to the Inverted U Theory, low levels of arousal produce the best performance when;

• The performer is a novice and the skill is gross
• The performer is a novice and the skill is fine
• The performer is an expert and the skill is gross
• The performer is an expert and the skill is fine

The athlete feels that they have total control of their actions in what Theory?

• Peak Flow
• Drive Theory
• Zone of Optimal Functioning
• Catastrophe

Which of the following is not a way an individual performer can find their optimal zone?

• Mental practice
• Pre-match rituals
• Self talk
• Extrinsic feedback

IZOF is an adaptation of ...

• Drive Theory
• Inverted U Theory
• Catasrophe
• Peak Flow

Define arousal

• A feeling
• An energised state
• Drive to perform
• Readiness to evaluate your own performance