APA 2140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Stroke Volume, Cardiac Output, Autogenic Training

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Human Kinetics
• Course: APA 2140
• Professor: Jennifer Brunet

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Stress: refers to people"s response to environmental demands or pressures that are appraised as taxing or exceeding the. Lecture 9: stress and coping in sport and exercise resources of the person: stress response consists of physiological, cognitive, affective and behavioural reactions due to some external or internal stimulus, stressors: events, forces or situations interpreted as stressful. Stress and emotions: stress and emotions are closely related, emotion is more complex than stress, emotion often influences significance of experience and response. Cognitive appraisals: consists of the person"s interpretation of a given situation or event. If no threat is perceived no stress is felt. If a threat is perceived secondary appraisal: secondary: evaluation of what can be done, examination of perceived available resources to cope with the problem. If a person perceived that he/she can cope with the stress positive stress is experienced: a perceived inability to fully cope with the situation leads to negative stress.