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Arousal/Anxiety Flashcards

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What is Arousal?

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A state of activation that varies on a continuum from deep sleep to intense excitement

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What is Anxiety?

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Negative emotional state with feelings of nervousness and worry associated with the activation/arousal of the body

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What is anxiety in sport?

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Unpleasant psychological state in reaction to perceived stress concerning the performance of a task under pressure

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What are the 2 forms of Anxiety? Describe them?

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Trait anxiety - general anxiety across all situations
State anxiety - Situational feelings of apprehension

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What is the association with trait and state anxiety?

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High trait is associated with high state

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What are the 2 components to anxiety?

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Cognitive
Somatic

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What is cognitive anxiety ? 3 Examples ?

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The mental components of anxiety such as:
Worry
Negative thoughts
Nervousness and apprehension

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What is somatic anxiety? Examples?

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The physical components such as:
Increased (^) respiration
^ sweating
^ HR
Physical nerves eg shaking, tense, nauseous.

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Is anxiety always bad?

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Anxiety can be perceived and interpreted differently, top athletes tend to use high anxiety levels to facilitate performance

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What are 2 factors to anxiety? Describe them?

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Intensity - The amount of anxiety one feels
Direction - One’s interaction to said anxiety, is it facilitative or debilitative?

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What is more important, intensity or direction? Dependant on?

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Direction as it can be used positively,
It is dependant on the type of anxiety and personal and situational factors

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What are the theories of Arousal? (4)

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Drive
Inverted U
Catastrophe
Multidimensional anxiety theory

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Describe the drive theory?

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Arousal increases the chance of dominant response, high arousal = dominant response = Improved performance

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Drive theory limitations?

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Too simple
Can’t explain elites choking/ novice shining

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Describe the inverted U theory?

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As arousal increases so does performance to a certain level, once optimal has surpassed then performance decreases. Optimal arousal differs

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Inverted U limitations?

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Unlikely performances decreases smoothly
Over arousal more likely to be a plummet

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What is the Individual Zone of Optimal functioning ?

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Optimal anxiety level (bandwidth) for an athlete where they perform the best.

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ZOF limitations?

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Doesn’t explain why some perform better in certain states and others don’t.
Doesn’t explain aviation of the same athlete in the same conditions

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Describe the multidimensional theory?

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distinguishes between somatic and cognitive, assuming cognitive is bad leading to a smooth decline

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Describe catastrophe theory?

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Once disruption occurs, performance plummets, if athlete can control anxiety they can regain performance.

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Catastrophe theory limitations?

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Difficult to test
How can you recreate intense arousal level setting?

22
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Arousal influences on performance ?(5)

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Muscle tension
Coordination difficulties
Narrows attention
Attend inappropriate cues
Shift to dominant style

23
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Describe the Competitive state anxiety inventory questionnaire ?

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27 items
3 sub scales — cognitive anxiety, somatic anxiety, self confidence

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Describe Competitive State Anxiety
Inventory Questionnaire 2 ?

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27 items
3 sub scales - cognitive anxiety, somatic anxiety, self confidence
2 dimensions - intensity and direction

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Physiological measurements of anxiety ?

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Change in HR
Respiration
Skin conductance
Cortisol

26
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Physiological measure +?

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Direct comparisons
Quantifiable values

27
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Physiological measures - ?

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Expensive
Requires training
May not reflect anxiety

28
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Self report +?

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Cheap
Easy
No training

29
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Self report -?(4)

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Response Bias/Socially desirable responding
Difficult to compare to other scores
Not always able to explain how we feel
Response scale can be limiting

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