Arousal Flashcards
Outline drive theory
Hull
Dominant responses
Well, learnt skills
Outline the inverted you hypothesis
Yerkes and Dodson
Who supported inverted you?
Landers and arent
Simple skills
Criticise inverted u
Gould hardy fazey neiss
Midpoint?
Which kind of anxiety is multidimensional?
State anxiety
can be cognitive or somatic
Who argued an anxiety impairs performance on difficult tasks?
Eysenk
What is stress?
Imbalance between demand and response capability whether there are consequences McGrath
Who found that injured athletes had stress
Gould
Outline stress and climate
O’rourke
High-pressure in high ego motivational climate - increased perceptions of anxiety
High-pressure in high mastery motivational climate - decreased perceptions of anxiety
Outline IZOF
Hanin
Optimal arousal varies depending on skill level personality and nature of task
Outline levels of IZOF
Low mid high
(Where optimal) - state anxiety scale
Outline multidimensional anxiety theory
Separate for cognitive somatic and self-confidence 
Outline catastrophe theory
Hardy and parfitt
Response to multidimensional focuses on the interactive effect of arousal cognitive anxiety and performance
What does catastrophe theory suggest?
Inverted you under conditions of low cognitive anxiety
Catastrophe theory diagram under conditions of high cognitive anxiety
What did Neil find
Rugby players
Alita athlete found somatic anxiety, more facilitative and less debilitative interpretations of symptoms of worry
