Interaction of Mental Factors (Psychology Sport Behavior and Performance)

General instructions: You will write two papers (4-5 pages each, plus references page). Please make sure you connect the topic of the paper to the course’s
content/readings and cite at least the course’s book. (Foundations of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 7th edition) Use APA to format the paper (1″ margins,
double space, Times New Roman 12pt) and for the citations and references; you do not need to write a cover page or an abstract, though. Write the topic of
the paper and your last name as the running head (e.g., TEAM DYNAMICS – SMITH). Do not include a header outside of the header space.
Paper 1. Interaction of mental factors. After you have learned about arousal, anxiety, confidence, and concentration and how they are related to performance
and to each other, discuss how athletes might underperform in a high-pressure situation and how these variables may relate to their underperformance (and
to each other). Then suggest at least one strategy/intervention that you learned this semester that could help prevent underperformance by affecting one of
these variables (e.g., decreasing anxiety).