PS286 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Autonomic Nervous System, Situation Two, Diaphragmatic Breathing
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Examine the influence of anxiety on attention. Neither good or bad (pleasant or unpleasant) Emotional and bodily responses (worrying, apprehension)(activation of autonomic nervous system) Characteristic of anxiety: result of cognitive appraisal of a stimulus and/or situation, distinct physiology, emotion experienced across cultures, identified by certain facial expressions, associated with certain action tendencies. How athlete feels in that specific moment. Tendency to be anxious in certain in certain situation. Limitations: too simplistic, failed to accurately predict performance, doesn"t account for multiple dimensions, doesn"t explain effect of arousal on performance, implies smooth relationship. Enhance performance by identifying optimal zone and teaching how to stay within it. Limitations: mixed results in literature, situational factors may influence izof. Looks at interrelationship between cognitive anxiety, somatic anxiety, and performance. High cognitive anxiety = extremely distorted inverted-u. Interaction between cognitive and somatic anxiety: low physiological arousal; increases in cog anxiety = better performance, high physiological arousal; increases in cog anxiety = catastrophic drop in performance.
