5: Anxiety

Question 1

anxiety

Answer 1

negative emotion that states feelings of worry, nervousness with physical/cognitive arousal

Question 2

2 components of anxiety

Answer 2

• somatic: physical (sweaty palms, shaky hands, increased HR/BP, urination, perspiration)
• cognitive: decrease in decision making, concentration, increased confusion, forgettfulness

Question 3

types of anxiety

Answer 3

• social: negavtie evaluation from others
• competitve: worry about skill, fitness being negatively evaluated by others
• social physique: body negatively evaluated from others
• state: experienced in this moment
• trait: anxiety overtime

Question 4

what is anxiety influenced by

Answer 4

demands placed on indiviual from environment and available resources

Question 5

5 characteristics of anxiety

Answer 5

1. following evaluation
2. universal
3. distinct physiology
4. facial expression
5. tendencies (unique behaivours)

Question 6

dimensions/measure of anxiety

Answer 6

interpretation of how we interpret same symptoms

• intensity of symptoms (more anxious on race day)
• frequency of cognitive intrusions (think abt more frequently as race day approaches)

Question 7

describe 5 personal sources of anxiety

Answer 7

1. Self regulation: self handicapping- enhance opportunity to fail
2. Gender: research inconsistent
3. Experience/skill level: lesser experience ppl shown to have higher anxiety
4. Trait anxiety: competitive trait anxiety- anxiety during competitions
5. Self confidence: self presentational efficacy- confidence in one’s ability to present image to others

Question 8

describe environmental sources of anxiety

Answer 8

• patterning of time of competition
• physical environment: clothing, mirrors
• people

Question 9

describe how anxiety influences performance

Answer 9

1. Attention/concentration changes
   - innapropriate task focus, preoccupation worries
2. Attention narrowing: distracted = miss relevent cues
3. Paralysis by analysis, shift to consious processing
4. Yips, muscle tension and coordination difficulties

Question 10

drive theory

Answer 10

NOT SUPPORTED, linear graph that as arousal increase = performance increase

Question 11

inverted u hypothesis

Answer 11

arousal increases with performance only up to a specific point, furhter developed by separating by athlete

Question 12

IZOF

Answer 12

Indiviualized zones of optimal functioning- best performance when in best optimized zone of functioning

Question 13

how do you meausre pre contemplation

Answer 13

-subjective athelete rating, subjective coach rating, objective measures of performance

Question 14

cusp catastrophe

Answer 14

interaction between performance and physiologal arousal + cognitive anxiety

Question 15

cusp catastrophe- low physiological arousal

Answer 15

elevations in cognitive anxiety enhanced performance

Question 16

cusp catastrophe- high physiological

Answer 16

elevations in cognitive anxiety declines in performance

Question 17

cusp catastrophe- high cognitive state anxiety

Answer 17

increase in physiological arousal only high up to a certain point

Question 18

cusp catastrophe- physiological arousal mod high/ cognitive anxiety high

Answer 18

catastrophe (dramatic performance drop)

Question 19

cusp catastrophe- low cognitive state anxiety

Answer 19

physiological arousal and performance is inverted U shape

Question 20

attentional mechanisms affected by anxiety-performance

Answer 20

1. tunnel vision (attentional focus)
2. information processed
3. paralysis by analysis- shift to consious processing system

Question 21

physiological mechanisms affected by anxiety-performance

Answer 21

• increase/decrease in power

- increase/decrease motor skills

Question 22

define choking in sport

Answer 22

• acute

- signiticant derements of ability in performance in high pressure situations

Question 23

what causes choking in sports

Answer 23

• high levels of cognitive anxiety/physiologcal arousal (catastrophe)
• changed in attention- when stressed/anxiety high ability to process can be destructed
• reinvesting: focusing on every movement (even automatic movements) to consious movements
• environement (crowd, setting)