Year 11 - Physical education
Drugs in sport
Socio-cultural influences: ethics and behaviour
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Unit Summary
This unit will examine socio-cultural factors concerned with sportsmanship, gamesmanship and deviance in sport to understand the choices made by some sportspeople and spectators.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to identify different types of performance enhancing drugs, their effects, and the reasons for and against taking them.
Key Notes
- Athletes with a 'win at all costs' mindset may use PEDs to improve performance and gain an unfair competitive edge.
- Anabolic steroids are used to increase muscles mass, train harder and recover from exercise quicker.
- Beta blockers reduce anxiety and muscle shakes, which can be beneficial for precision sports.
- Stimulants impact the central nervous system to reduce fatigue, increase alertness and improve reaction times.
Vocabulary To Learn
- performance enhancing drugs: substances used to benefit and enhance performance in sport, often against the rules
- anabolic steroids: synthetic hormones that promote muscle growth and enhance performance
- beta blockers: a drug used to control heart rhythm and lower blood pressure
- stimulants: drugs used to raise physiological arousal in the body
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- All PEDs are automatically illegal and banned substances.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Athletes with a 'win at all costs' mindset may use PEDs to improve performance and gain an unfair competitive edge. Anabolic steroids are used to increase muscles mass, train harder and recover from exercise quicker.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'performance enhancing drugs'
substances used to benefit and enhance performance in sport, often against the rules.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: All PEDs are automatically illegal and banned substances. Correction: The use of some PEDs to enhance performance is perfectly acceptable. Many sportspeople use narcotic analgesics to get through an event or drink caffeine for its stimulating effect. WADA is responsible for determining which PEDs are allowed.
More Lessons In This Unit
- Conduct of performers Study Guide
- Hooliganism Study Guide
- Interpretation and analysis of data and graphs related to socio-cultural issues Study Guide
- Prohibited substances and methods Study Guide
- Spectator behaviour Study Guide
- Sportsmanship, gamesmanship and conduct of performers Study Guide
- Sportsmanship, gamesmanship and deviance Study Guide
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