KINE 4520 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Social Anxiety Disorder, Anxiety Disorder, Kyle Shewfelt
26 Jan 2018
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If arousal extremely high + cognitive anxiety(worried about evaluations/results) is high = when you make mistakes ->crash horribly. Cant just decrease arousal to return to optimal performance (not that easy) Hockey: canada vs russia lost gold medal match. Goalie let in a shitty goal decrease performance all game long. What"s i(cid:373)porta(cid:374)t is (cid:449)hether athlete"s perception of anxiety is facilitative or debilitative. Will i be able to deliver the performance i need to win. Gymnast broke both legs and still competed in beijing olympics. 3 fear of physical harm increase chance of getting hurt because you get tense. 4 situation ambiguity do(cid:374)"t k(cid:374)o(cid:449) if (cid:455)ou on starting line up. If you fear failure, you will probably fail. Fear and anxiety are basically the same thing. Def: poor performance that occurs in response to the perceived stress of a situation. Wh(cid:455): (cid:449)he(cid:374) athlete"s thi(cid:374)k too (cid:373)u(cid:272)h a(cid:271)out a(cid:374) auto(cid:373)ati(cid:272) a(cid:272)iti(cid:448)it(cid:455) paralysis by.
