Kinesiology 1070A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Factor Analysis, Dependent And Independent Variables, Catastrophe Theory
5 Oct 2015
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Anxiety terminology and measurement/ theories of competitive anxiety/ temporal patterning of competitive. Anxiety/ the competitive anxiety-performance relationship (elusive, dif cult to obtain results)/ competitive. Intensity of symptoms (how strong these symptoms are) symptom intensities may be facilitative or debilitative. Frequency of intrusion (how often these symptoms occurred) *there are many different ways to measure anxiety, eg. physiological changes like muscle changes, sweating or behavioural like jitters, or stress hormones and adrenaline. Trait-state research research as shown that persons with higher levels of competitive a-trait report greater levels of a-state prior to competition. Research has shown that the nature of the sport (eg. individual vs. team/ subjective vs. objective) also in uences a-state levels. *famous sport psychologist he was upset about the material that was being showed, he then created his on. Uncertainty of the outcome uncertainty of obtaining a favourable outcome. Importance of the outcome value in attaining a favourable outcome.
