Cards (13)

    • Defining Arousal 
      • “A level of physiological & psychological activation”
    • Arousal Continuum:
      • Deep Sleep → sleep → drowsy → relaxed→ alert → excited → intense excitement → feelings of discomfort/concern (anxiety)
      • Anxiety connected to arousal, but doesn't mean one always leads to the other 
      • Can manipulate/control arousal levels to help us perform well 
      • Arousal is always there (is a continuum)
      • Arousal is momentary motivation - intensity part
    • Arousal Components
      • Physiological component 
      • Increases or decreases in the body’s level of activation (eg.,HR, breathing, muscle tension…)
      • Is connected to psych component
      • Psychological component 
      • Either positive feelings such as excitement/confidence, or negative feelings such as fear/sadness or discomfort/concern
    • Arousal Components
      • Both are connected as by reducing/increasing psychological component can reduce/increase physiological component
      • High arousal can lead to anxiety, doesn’t mean it will/does
      • Everyone gets nerves, depends on our control/cope/perceive them 
      • Harness them 
    • Arousal Components
      • Shouldn't ignore physiological component as also influences performance 
      • Key cause is psychological
      • But actual action is physiological - acts/behaves
      • Psychological influences our physiological performance
    • Arousal/Anxiety 
      • Anxiety = High arousal states that produce feelings of discomfort & concern 
      • High arousal doesn’t always result in anxiety 
      • Why does it sometimes lead to anxiety or excitement?
      • What gets in the way 
      • When you’re anxious is tied w/ high levels of arousal
    • Anxiety = A perceived threat
      • Threat is real to us, doesn’t mean it is to everyone else
      • Not an objective threat to wellbeing, or health
      • Not actually a threat
      • Threat to work put it, family, winning (motives)
      •  May not be able to achieve
      • Bc/ you care about it 
    • Anxiety = A perceived threat
      • "A tendency to perceive competitive situations as threatening & to respond to these situations with feelings of apprehension & tension"
      • Tendency = part of personality 
      • Threatening in your perspective 
      • Arousal not same as anxiety
    • Anxiety = A perceived threat
    • Stress Definition 
      • A perceived imbalance between demand & capabilities
      • "A substantial imbalance between environmental demand [physical &/or psych demands] & response capability, under conditions where failure to meet the demand has important  consequences."
      • ===>  stress leads to state anxiety
    • Stress Definition 
      • A perceived imbalance between demand & capabilities
      • Your perceived capabilities to meet those demands 
      • I can do it, I can’t do this
      • Situation can override personality, & cause you to be stressed 
      • Is a thought process (psychological)
    • Stress Definition 
      • "A substantial imbalance between environmental demand [physical &/or psych demands] & response capability, under conditions where failure to meet the demand has important  consequences."
      • It matters to you (important)
      • Way not to stress, is to not care 
    • Stress Definition 
      • =====>  stress leads to state anxiety
      • If start to worry can lead to state anxiety
      • Anxiety incorporates physiological performance