often viewed as mental, emotional, bodily and behavioural reactions to conditions that place high demands (appraised as either threatening or challenging) on an individual.
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What does Eustress mean?
Eustress is positive stress that is associated with challenge, excitement and pleasure
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What does distress mean?
This is negatively associated stress which is linked with threat fear and depression
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What does arousal mean?
often refers to a general physiological state in which the sympathetic part of the autonomic nervous system is activated , vigour, vitality and intensity with which the mind functions
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Arousal theory, Inverted U hypothesis
As arousal increases the level of performance increases, until reaches optimum where increased arousal further will have a negative affect on performance m
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Drive theory
when arousal increases the performance increases on a motor task
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What is anxiety?
unpleasant, unwanted emotional feelings
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What are the two different types of anxiety?
State and trait anxiety
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What is state anxiety?
perceived feelings of worry and tension associated with physiological arousal in response to a specific situation
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What is trait anxiety?
view non dangerous circumstances as threatening and to respond out of proportion to the level of threat present
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What are the two major components of Multidimensional anxiety theory
Cognitive and somatic anxiety
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What is cognitive anxiety?
worry, generates negative thoughts and emotions, self doubt toward towards the performance
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What is somatic anxiety?
associated with physiological and emotional elements of aniexty experience that develops directly from autonomic arousla.
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What does cognitive anxiety look like on a graph?
Cognitive anxiety is at a constant high before performance, then after the performance decreases. may increase again after due to worrying about how the performance went
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What does somatic anxiety look like on a graph?
shortly before the performance increases rapidly then after the performance decreases.
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What is the catastrophe model?
This shows the relationship between cognitive anxiety and physiological arousal.
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What is the effect of increased cognitive anxiety and low levels of psychological arousal?
At low levels of physiological arousal and increased cognitive anxiety, can have beneficial results on performance.
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What is the effect of increased cognitive anxiety and high levels of physiological
High levels of both can have a serious bad effect on performance
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what happens at low levels of cognitive anxiety?
small effects upon performance
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what is the matching hypothesis?
the type of anxiety and stress control technique should be matched/compatible to the activity causing the anxiety and stress?
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