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An Experiment to Investigate How an Active Audience Will Affect a Skilled or Unskilled Player's Performance  

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An Experiment to Investigate How an Active Audience Will Affect a Skilled or Unskilled Player's Performance Centre Name: St. Leonard's RC Comprehensive Centre Number: 43421 Candidate Name: Sarah Davey Candidate Number: 6767 By Sarah Davey ABSTRACT Empirical Evidence used for this experiment was that of Triplett, Michaels et al. and Pessin, which all look at how an audience can affect a performance. Pessin and Triplett lacks ecological validity, due to unsporting relation, whilst Michaels et al. can be generalised more with this experiment, and is based on this. The aim of this experiment was to investigate whether skilled netball players with an active audience, would score more goals in 1 minute than unskilled players with an active audience. The Alternative Hypothesis of this experiment was that, skilled players would score significantly more netball goals in 1 minute, with an active audience than those who are unskilled. An experimental method was employed and an Independent Measures Design...

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