PEDS303 Lecture Notes - Emotional Bias, Response Bias, Respiratory Rate

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Physical Education and Sport
• Course: PEDS303
• Professor: John Dunn

Document Summary

Issue #1: conceptual confusion between fear of failure and fear of negative social evaluation in sport psychology literature, ex. Lots of athletes worry about not performing well but many of those athletes are simply worried that this will result in their team (or self) not winning the competition as opposed to worrying about the ensuing negative social evaluation. Little self-presentational concern when worrying about getting a stick in the face. Expand the scope of cta theory beyond self-presentational anxiety. Arousal: we can measure heart rate, blood pressure, respiratory rate, Galvanic skin response (measure electrical activity in muscle), and blood. Pay attention to the name of instruments of anxiety. Usually 2 questions on anxiety and an instruments names. Someone with high confidence will perform better due to low anxiety. As you ask someone a csai the closer to a competition, the higher the somatic anxiety. We have to be careful when we administer a csai.