KIN 247 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Drive Theory

• School: University of Illinois
• Department: Kinesiology
• Course: KIN 247
• Professor: Cohen Jason

Document Summary

Anxiety: negative emotional state consisting of two components: cognitive component: feelings of nervousness, worry, and apprehension, somatic component: perceived physical activation, two types of anxiety. Trait: disposition to perceive a wide range of objectively non-dangerous situations as threatening: relationship between trait and state anxiety. High trait anxious individuals experience more state anxiety in highly competitive and evaluative situations. Stress: imbalance between demand and response capabilities where failure to meet demand has important consequences: stage 1: environmental demand. Ex) a hostile crowd: stage 2: i(cid:374)dividual"s perceptio(cid:374)s of the e(cid:374)viro(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)tal de(cid:373)a(cid:374)d. Ex) amount of perceived threat: stage 3: stress response. Arousal, state anxiety, muscle tension, attention changes imbalance is threatening: stage 4: behavior. Drive theory: i(cid:374)creased arousal i(cid:374)creases the likelihood of (cid:862)do(cid:373)i(cid:374)a(cid:374)t respo(cid:374)se(cid:863) occurri(cid:374)g. Inverted u hypothesis: as arousal increases, so does performance until some optimal point where best performance result, beyond this point, further increases in arousal result in performance declines.