Sport Psychology Chapter 5

A negative emotional state caused by worries and apprehension

Physiological and psychological activation which varies in intensity on a continuum ranging from deep sleep to peak activation or frenzy

An elevation in state anxiety reduces the ability to attend to and process information

The mental component of competitive trait anxiety

Arousal, Anxiety, and Sport Performance

The specific trait anxiety associated with sport competition

The theory that attempts to describe the combined influences of the mulitple components of anxiety (cognitive state anxiety and physiological arousal) on athletic performance

How cognitive and physiological anxiety symptoms are perceived on a debilitative facilitative continuum

Athletes should perform better and be more successful in front of a supportive home-team crowd than before less supportive and antagonist opposition crowd

The state in which athletes' attentional focus shifts rapidly between different sources of stimuli

Displaying diminishing efforts during training, exaggerating the pain associated with an injury, or complaining illegitimately about the unfairness of the referee

The anxiety resulting from perceived evaluation of one's physique in social setting

The physiological and affective elements of anxiety

The type of anxiety associated with worries and apprehension that change from moment to moment

The stable part of an individual's personality predisposing the individual to perceive situations as physically or psychologically threatening