PHED-4216EL Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Electrodermal Activity, Perceived Control, Genitive Case
28 Dec 2019
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Arousal: intensity dimensions of motivation at a particular moment. Anxiety: negative emotional state characterized by nervousness, worry, and apprehension and associated with activation or arousal of the body. Arousal (activation): physiological and psychological activation, varying in intensity on a continuum at a particular moment. Anxiety: genitive emotional state w/ feelings of worry, nervousness and apprehension (cognitive) associated w/ activation or arousal of body (somatic) Arousal/activation are neutral; not negative or positive depends on interpretation. State anxiety: right now feelings change from moment to moment. Perceived control state anxiety: degree someone believes they have resources and ability to meet challenges. High trait anxious: more state anxiety in evaluative situations; predisposed to view circumstances as threatening or stressful. Self-report scales: competitive state anxiety inventory (csai-2) Research consistently shows: high on trait anxiety more state anxiety in competitive, evaluative situations, coping skills can be taught to reduce, re-channel and change meaning of anxiety". State anxiety sport * somewhere in book.
