10. Arousal and Anxiety

Question 1

What is attention and what are its three aspects

Answer 1

Attention is the ability to focus on relevant stimuli and cope with distractiosn

Concentration (mental effort)
Selective Attention (focusing on on specific cues)
Processing Capacity (attentional space)

Question 2

What is arousal

Answer 2

Degree of physiological and psychological activation

Question 3

How do arousal and attention interact

Answer 3

As arousal increases attentional focus narrows

However, other theoires say that attention is best at medium arousal and bad at low (too many distractions) and high (disregard important cues) arousal

Question 4

What is anxiety

Answer 4

a emotion related to distress (bad stress)

Question 5

What is the processing efficiency theory and the attentional control theory

Answer 5

Processing efficiency theory says that stress reduces processing capacity by distraction

Attentional control theory is the same but saying that anxiety occupieds the working memory space

Question 6

What is the conscious processing hypothesis

Answer 6

stress causes athletes to try to consciously control automated motor skills which is bad for performacne

Question 7

What is the multidimensional anxiety theory and directional theory

Answer 7

It says that Cognitive anxiety is always bad for performance (linear relation)
Somatic Anxiety can be good if the interpretation is correct

Question 8

How do you improve attention (4 points)

Answer 8

Goals
Routines
Trigger words
imagery

Question 9

How do you improve anxiety (2 points)

Answer 9

reappraisal

deep breathing for relaxation