Chapter 5: Arousal, Stress, & Anxiety
What is the term for "Psychological and physiological activation, varying in intensity along a continuum."
What is arousal?
This is the term for the type of confidence which is usually consistent or part of one's personality
What is Trait Confidence?
Burnout is a reaction to what?
What is chronic stress?
Name one misconception about confidence...
What is...
1. Either you have it, or you don't
2. Confidence equals outspoken arrogance
3. People need 100% confidence to perform well
What are three somatic symptoms of anxiety? (There are plenty more than just three)
What are...
- Tense muscles
- Increased heart rate
- Quick, shallow breathing
- Profuse sweating
- Trembling/shaking
- Butterflies in the stomach
- Excessive trips to the bathroom/vomiting
- Dazed look in the eyes
What is the term for when you expect something to happen, which actually helps cause it to happen?
What is self-fulfilling prophecy?
This term is the deliberate strategy of exposing athletes to high-volume and high-intensity training loads that are followed by a lower training load (a rest or taper).
What is periodization or periodized training?
Name one personal source and one situational source of stress
What are...
Situational sources
Event importance
Uncertainty/lack of control
Strained interpersonal relationships
Coach behaviors
Personal sources
Trait anxiety
Self-esteem
Social physique anxiety (SPA)
Burn out
If one's arousal is too low, their attentional field will be...
(hint: think broad, narrow, or optimal)
What is too broad?
Similar to self-confidence, this is the perception of one’s ability to perform a task successfully. (Hint: It was Albert Bandura's Idea)
What is self-efficacy?
Which symptoms of burnout appear first?
What are psychological symptoms?
Individuals with high self-efficacy are likely to set challenging goals.
What is more?
In this theory, optimal level (or bandwidth) of state anxiety does not always occur at the midpoint of the continuum but rather varies from individual to individual.
What is IZOF model/theory?
What does IZOF stands for?
Source of self-efficacy characterized by seeing others perform a task or skill.
What is vicarious experience?
An athlete may be experiencing when they are having difficulty maintaining standard training regimens and can no longer achieve previous performance results
What is staleness?
What are the three consequences of sport confidence?
What are affect, behavior, and cognitions?
A personality disposition defined as the degree to which people become anxious when others observe their body.
What is Social Physique Anxiety (SPA)?
The source of self-efficacy that involves self-talk.
What is verbal persuasion?
When the body has time to rest and rejuvenate following high intensity/high volume training and one’s base fitness level is increased.
What is supercompensation?
State anxiety is perceived as facilitative or debilitative depending on how much the person perceives
What is control?