"Arousal and anxiety in sport" Essays and Research Papers

Sort By:
Satisfactory Essays
Good Essays
Better Essays
Powerful Essays
Best Essays
Page 4 of 50 - About 500 Essays
  • Good Essays

    For me‚ I get really bad anxiety about speeches. While I wait to go up‚ my heart begins to pound and it’s hard for me to breathe. I try and give myself encouragement and pray for strength and for the words to flow easily out of me. Before I’m even up there‚ I start shaking‚ though. My legs and my hands are the worst. Along with the shaking‚ my palms get sweaty. I wait there trying to tell myself I’m fine until I am told to go up and do my speech. That’s when I panic. When I start out‚ I think I’m

    Premium English-language films High school Public speaking

    • 660 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Anxiety In Psychology

    • 569 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Anxiety‚ stress‚ and fear are interrelated emotions that are a natural and common part of life. Stress is a physical and psychological response to a demand for change. The sympathetic nervous system is associated with the physical response associated with stress. Fear is a negative emotion that presents itself in the face of imminent danger. The sympathetic-adrenal-medullary (SAM) pathway triggers a release of adrenaline and noradrenaline‚ which leads to a fight or flight response. Anxiety is also

    Premium Psychology Anxiety Fear

    • 569 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Physiological arousal has been theorized to affect size perception in prior research (Geuss‚ Stefanucci‚ de Benedictis-Kessner‚ & Stevens‚ 2010). Geuss’s team of researchers employed jogging in place as well as counting backwards by sevens to induce physiological arousal in a subject‚ each in a different experiment of their 2010 study. Both continually jogging in place and counting backwards by sevens were found to induce physiological arousal (2010); the arousal level was measured using heart rate

    Premium Muscle Physical exercise Obesity

    • 1162 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Test Anxiety

    • 1453 Words
    • 6 Pages

    Test Anxiety is defined by Kondo (1996) as a double situation specific personality trait‚ consisting of two psychological components; emotional arousal and worry. Several studies have focused on test anxiety‚ as it is associated with lower test results and a higher amount of stress‚ so has attracted attention from researchers and teachers (Hembree 1998; Sarason and Sarason 1990) as cited in Kondo (1996). Most of the focus has been to reduce test anxiety by investigating the cognitive‚ affective

    Premium Psychology Anxiety Psychometrics

    • 1453 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Better Essays

    The Anxiety Disorders

    • 1721 Words
    • 5 Pages

    Anxiety Disorders An anxiety disorder does not develop over night; it develops slowly and could get worse if not treated by a physician when symptoms first occur. Feeling anxious is normal. People may feel anxious anxiety could worsen. An exam- during finals week‚ an individual anxiety level is high because more stress is increase. Doing activities that alleviates stress helps an individual’s anxiety decrease- going to the pool or going out to eat with friends- getting away from the “toxic”

    Premium Nervous system Anxiety Brain

    • 1721 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Best Essays

    Anxiety, a Review

    • 2092 Words
    • 9 Pages

    Abstract A review of research on anxiety: the physiological‚ neurological‚ and psychological aspects. Covered in brief are the definitions‚ classifications‚ symptomologies‚ and demographics of those affected. Prior studies and research are addressed from different points of view including inherent traits‚ biological basis‚ and environmental factors. Rationale and different treatment modalities from both the neurological and psychological perspectives are presented.

    Premium Cognitive behavioral therapy Social anxiety disorder Anxiety

    • 2092 Words
    • 9 Pages
    Best Essays
  • Good Essays

    THE PSYCHOLOGICAL REACTIONS CAUSED BY RELAXATION AND AROUSAL ABSTRACT: This study’s main reason is to explore the psychological reactions by the idea of relaxation and arousal. A total of thirty eight students t part in this experiment. This study followed a within subject design in witch the independent variables were the music‚ witch was playing in the start‚ the touch stimuli and the music‚ witch was playing in the end of the experiment. However the dependent variables were the galvanic skin

    Premium Question Measurement Participation

    • 633 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Anxiety Disorder

    • 1038 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Overcoming Anxiety Are you or do you know anyone‚ experiencing anxiety panic attacks? Anxiety has been a lifelong problem for me‚ but what is anxiety? People have anxiety disorders that are mental disorders characterized by feelings of fear and unease. Anxiety can work its way through one’s mental and physical state‚ causing disturbances in their everyday life. It is a very unpleasant state‚ accompanied by nervousness and generalized as an overreaction to a situation. As for me‚ anxiety has been

    Free Anxiety Fear Anxiety disorder

    • 1038 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Anxiety Disorders

    • 18042 Words
    • 73 Pages

    1. Introduction to Anxiety Disorders Anxiety is a common and essential process of daily life. It is highly important‚ evolutionary speaking‚ as people typically experience anxiety when faced with environmental threats such as encountering a lion (not so common a concern in modern society for most people)‚ scarcity of food or other resources‚ or acceptance among one’s peers and society at large. This anxiety orients the individual toward anticipating dangers‚ motivates the person to act in order

    Premium Anxiety Panic disorder Anxiety disorder

    • 18042 Words
    • 73 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    Anxiety Disorder

    • 1949 Words
    • 8 Pages

    Anxiety Disorder Anxiety is a normal reaction to stress and can actually be beneficial in some situations. Anxiety is also a normal human emotion that everyone experiences at times. Many people feel anxious‚ or nervous‚ when faced with a problem at work‚ before taking a test‚ or making an important decision. For some people‚ however‚ anxiety can become excessive. While the person suffering may realize their anxiety is too much‚ they may also have difficulty controlling it and it may negatively

    Premium Cognitive behavioral therapy Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor Anxiety

    • 1949 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Good Essays
Page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 50