anxiety

Question 1

anxiety

Answer 1

feeling of apprehension when faced with a stressor, before, during and after

Question 2

cognitive anxiety

Answer 2

psychological symptoms: negative thinking, self-doubt, low confidence, inability to speak

Question 3

somatic anxiety

Answer 3

physical symptoms: increased heart rate, muscle tensions, sweat, stomach cramps and sickness

Question 4

trait anxiety

Answer 4

see al situations as threatening - personality disposition

Question 5

state anxiety

Answer 5

situational specific

Question 6

ways of measuring anxiety

Answer 6

. observation
. questionnaires
. physiological measures

Question 7

pros of observing anxiety

Answer 7

. enables viewing of live performance
. can identify the situations that create anxiety
. subjective
. cheap

Question 8

con of observing anxiety

Answer 8

. performers may feel apprehensive as they’re being observed and therefore more anxious

Question 9

pros of questionnaires to measure anxiety

Answer 9

. quick and easy to complete
. cheap
. they provide good data/info that can be measured to scale
. the data enables opportunities to develop strategies to support future performance

Question 10

cons of using questionnaires to measure anxiety

Answer 10

. performers may not complete the questionnaires accurately
. performers may fail to understand questions
. performers can fake answers - bias
. questionnaires may be too long

Question 11

pros of using physiological measures to measure anxiety

Answer 11

. provide data, e,g blood pressure, heart rates, that can indicate high levels of anxiety, allowing coaches to work out ow to lower HR
. objective
. quantitative

Question 12

cons of using physiological measures to measure anxiety

Answer 12

. some people don’t respond well to having their BP taken and therefore are prone to elevated figures
. expensive as it requires specialist equipment

Question 13

somatic anxiety effect on performance

Answer 13

. identical effect
. increases can improve performance up to a point
. but after it will impair performance

Question 13

cognitive anxiety effect on performance

Answer 13

. has a negative linear effect
. as anxiety increases, performance decreases

Question 14

somatic anxiety effect on times before a game

Answer 14

. increases just before a competition
. reduces as performance his underway

Question 15

cognitive anxiety effect on times before a game

Answer 15

. cognitive anxieties present much before earlier
. Noah and player should begin to control cognitive anxiety well before the game and introduce techniques to control anxiety as the game approaches

Question 16

SCAT test

Answer 16

. psychometric test
. 9 questions
. 3 possible responses
. measures your competing anxiety

Question 16

CSAT 2 test

Answer 16

. psychometric test
. 27 questions
. 4 possible responses
. measures your cognitive and somatic anxiety

Question 17

quantitative data

Answer 17

data which cane be written down or measured precisely and numerically

Question 18

qualitative data

Answer 18

data which is descriptive and looks at the way people think/feel; sometimes less precise, but very time consuming to collect

Question 19

validity

Answer 19

the degree of the data collected actually measures what it claims to measure

Question 20

reliability

Answer 20

degree to which data collection is stable and consistent over time

Question 21

objective

Answer 21

fact based info which is measurable and usable

Question 22

subjective

Answer 22

data based on personal opinion which is less measurable and often less useful