PSY 614 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Autogenic Training, Autonomic Nervous System, Stress Management
29 Nov 2017
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You must increase your awareness of your psychological states before you can control your thoughts and feelings. How individuals cope with anxiety is more important than how much anxiety they experience. Individuals who see their anxiety as facilitative are more likely to use both problem focused and emotion focused coping. Three time periods were critical in the interpretation of anxiety: post performance, 1-2 days prior to competition, day of competition. Involved an electronic monitoring device that can detect and amplify internal responses not ordinarily known to us. Skill acquisition: skill rehearsal, stress inoculation training (sit) Individual is exposed to and learns to cope with stress in increasing amounts, thereby increasing immunity to stress: 4 stage approach: 1. Matching hypothesis an anxiety management technique should be matched to a particular anxiety problem. Cognitive anxiety with mental relaxation and somatic anxiety with physical relaxation.
