KP181 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Casual Friday, Prefrontal Cortex, Drive Theory
12 Feb 2018
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Intensity of physiological and psychological activity in a person . Neither pleasant or unpleasant, it is a continuum. Characterized by nervousness, worry and apprehension: typically viewed in a negative form. Direction: facilitative (positive for performance) vs. debilitative (negative for performance) State anxiety: temporary, changing, moment to moment, apprehension/tension. Trait anxiety: part of your personality, a tendency to perceive certain situations as a threat when they are not objectively a threat. Social anxiety: concern with evaluation from other people , competitive anxiety. You tend to see it more in sports or competitive arenas. Worry about the body, performance, or skills . This could root from coaches, audience, parents etc: social physique anxiety. How will their body and their physical self be evaluated by others. Personal sources: experience/skill, gender, trait anxiety, self-con dence/self-presentation. Situational sources: temporal patterning (fig 5. 1, physical environment (exercise, other people (exercise, drive theory. Not very realistic as if you are too aroused, you may not perform 100: inverted-u.
