HHP 2500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Bewildered, Calmness, Vo2 Max
21 Feb 2018
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Public perception of exercise: 62% of individuals would not exercise even if their life depended on it, 4% of individuals find exercise fun. Affect: a general response or feeling, good-bad; pleasure-displeasure feeling. Emotion: a subjective state/feeling that emerges following the cognitive appraisal of an object/person//event that impacts an individual"s goals and well-being, key: requires (1) specific stimulus and (2) cognitive processing. Fear after seeing a bear in the woods. Also, a subjective state that involves cognitive processing that can enhance or interfere with behaviors. Key: (1) usually longer lasting than emotions (2) can arise without a specific, identifiable cause (3) less intense than emotions. How are you feeling right now: tension, depression, anger, vigor, fatigue, confusion. Activation-deactivation adjective check list (ad acl: measures immediate state of arousal across two dimensions, energy-tiredness, tension-calmness, placid is calm/chill. 12 items, divided into 3 subscales: positive well-being, psychological distress, fatigue. Self talk) are effective only within a limited range of intensity.
