Personality
The parts about us that remain the same over time and make us different from other people.
What is personality?
Awareness of the present.
What is mindfulness?
The level of physical and psychological activation
What is arousal?
When anxiety is low, individuals experience these kind emotions
What are positive emotions?
Strategies that seek to alter the stressor and include problem solving, removing the source of stress or information seeking
What is problem focused coping?
How a person is acting temporarily.
What is a state?
The ability to recover from difficulty.
What is Resilience?
An Increase in arousal increases performance to an optimal level, then is detrimental.
What is the Inverted-U Theory?
A physical awareness of physiological changes from stress that then causes more anxiety (and stress response).
What is somatic anxiety?
Strategies that do not alter the stressor but regulate the negative emotional response to it; they include relaxation, seeking emotional social support and self-talk
What is emotion focused coping?
Stable tendencies of how someone acts over time.
What are trait personality factors?
The ability to carry out tasks successfully, despite problems. Less likely to give up.
What is commitment?
Linear relationship between arousal and performance.
What is Drive Theory?
Uncontrollable negative thoughts.
strategies that attempt to prevent the negative impact of a stressor by physically or psychologically distancing oneself from it; they include ignoring, procrastinating and quitting.
What is avoidance focused coping?
Personalities are developed constantly through interactions of the person and the environment.
What is Interactionism?
A method for athletes to control their state of mind through avoiding certain thoughts and promoting others which can promote mental toughness
What is Psychological Skills Training?
Stress typically causes arousal through stimulation of this system
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
This suggests that when both cognitive and somatic anxiety are high, performance declines rapidly or is ended prematurely.
What is catastrophe theory?
This says people deal with stress as a transaction (What can they get or what can they lose as a result of a stress)
What is the transactional model of stress?
These two traits are linked to sticking to programs.
What are extraversion and conscientiousness?
Name three attributes of mental toughness.
What are unshakable self-belief, determination, resilience, handling pressure, coping skills, remaining focused, and persistence?
These two terms are how stress effects can be beneficial while others detrimental.
What is eustress (positive stress response) and distress (negative stress response)?
According to catastrophe theory, Low (or zero) cognitive anxiety has this kind of relationship with performance.
What is an inverted-U relationship?
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