A sports psychologist is working with two elite athletes: Elena, a competitive pistol shooter who performs best when she feels completely calm and relaxed, and Marcus, a weightlifter who performs best when he is highly pumped up and experiencing high levels of tension.
Using Hanin’s (1997) research into the Individual Zones of Optimal Functioning (IZOF), explain how both Elena’s and Marcus’s contrasting anxiety levels can lead to their optimal sporting performance.
12 exam-style questions on OCR A Level Psychology Arousal and anxiety (Biological). Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.