APK-4400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Biofeedback, Visual Search, Drive Theory
11 Oct 2017
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Anxiety: a negative emotional state characterized by nervousness, worry, and apprehension, cognitive anxiety, wrong/apprehension, somatic anxiety, degree of perceived action, state anxiety, ever changing mood state, trait anxiety, part of personality. Stress: an imbalance between demand and response capability, stage 1 -> environmental demand, physical or psychological, student learns volleyball skill in front of class, stage 2 -> perception of demand, evaluate the threat (do resources match demands) Sources of stress: situational sources, event importance, uncertainty, personal sources, trait anxiety, self-esteem, social physique anxiety, less confidence and experience, more state anxiety. Inverted-u-hypothesis -> at low arousal levels, performance will be below par; future increases in arousal, however, cause performance to decline: most people have experience under arousal, optimal arousal and over arousal. Is optimal arousal always at the midpoint: no. Individualized zone of optimal functioning -> elite athletes have a zone of optimal state anxiety in which their best performance occurs: outside of the zone, poor performance occurs.
