KINESIOL 4V03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Information Overload, Attentional Control, Electrodermal Activity
28 Dec 2016
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Sense of dread, shaking, feeling faint, choking, rapid heart beat, wobbly legs. Usually defined in terms of the affective domain. Can be measured on several levels: physiological. Galvanic skin response, palm sweat index etc. Like a polygraph, if you have high levels of anxiety, you are typically lying: behavioural. Usually a form of coping: cognitive. Self-report questionnaires (ex, competitive state anxiety inventory, Level or degree of anxiety associated with a specific or particular state or situation. Can vary minute to minute or state to state. Variable, depending on the situation the person is in (cid:498)are you worried about your performance now? (cid:499) (cid:498)are you usually worried about your performance? (cid:499) A more stable personal characteristic that is less likely to vary across: trait time or situation. If you put a more anxious person in a higher state place, the larger the increase will be: both tend to interact with each other.
