Anxiety

Question 1

What is anxeity?

Answer 1

A negative emotional state associated with feelings of worry or nervousness relating to activation or arousal.

Question 2

Why might someone experience anxiety?

Answer 2

Self esteem
letting people down
physical harm
punsihement

Question 3

What are the types of anxiety?

Answer 3

trait
competitive trait
state anxiety

Question 4

What is the trait anxiety?

Answer 4

A predisposition to perceive most situations as threating; enduring in an Individual

Question 5

What is the competitive trait?

Answer 5

A performer has the tendency to perceive competitive situations as threatening and to respond to these with feelings of apprehension or tension

Question 6

What is state anxiety?

Answer 6

The athletes emotional response at an given time, varies from situation to situation and immediate

Question 7

What are the responses to anxiety?

Answer 7

Somatic and cognitive

Question 8

What is somatic anxiety?

Answer 8

a performer experiencing anxiety physiologially

feeling sick, sweating

Question 9

What is cognitive anxiety?

Answer 9

Anxiety experienced mentally or of the mind
panic attacks
ocd
personality disorder

Question 10

What is the zone of optimum functioning?

Answer 10

the emotional response that facilitates top performance

when the performers anxiety is at its best (peak) performance will be at its best

Question 11

What is peak flow experience?

Answer 11

Ultimate intrinsic experience, performance is flawless
being in the zone
related to inner drive and self motivation

Question 12

What does in the zone mean to a performer?

Answer 12

Relaxed
confident
focussed
effortless
having fun 
in control

Question 13

Why do performers like sprinters and fighters have a better zone of optimumm at high arousal?

Answer 13

Over quicker, explosive
whereas long duration, prolonged performance
long duration- need lower arousal to perform at best

Question 14

What is cue utilisation?

Answer 14

As arousal increases, an athletes attention narrows

Question 15

What is perceptual narrowing?

Answer 15

As arousal increases, athletes attention narrows

Question 16

According to cue utilisation where does the athlete need to be to perform at their best?

Answer 16

Need to be at optimum arousal levels, inverted u theory to pick up on relevant cues in the environment and ignore irrelevant ones- known as selective attention

Question 17

What is selective attention?

Answer 17

Performer picking relevant cues rather than irrevelant cues

Question 18

Why is lower arousal too low?

Answer 18

Too low
attentional field is too wide
performer taks in too many cues- information overload
causes sub optimal performancr

Question 19

Why. is the performer best at moderate arousal levels?

Answer 19

taking in right relevant cues
optimum level
attentional field is at optimum width
fully focused
may be experiencing peak flow- ultimate experience  in the zone

Question 20

Why isn’t high arousal good for best performance?

Answer 20

Too igh
attentional field is too narrow
misses important cues- lead to anxiety and panic
leads to illogical and irrational devision making
causes sub optimal performance