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3. Bodies response to challenge the threat or escape from it in order to return to homeostasis. These responses are instantaneous and ocurr over and over each day as you encounter various stressors.

4. Physical Psychological Environmental Stressors are always a threat to your homeostasis It is the perceived level of threat that will determine the level of your stress response.

6. Vital to all living organisms Without stress disrupting your homeostasis you would not continue to live and strive to achieve The challenge is to respond appropriately to the stressors in a way that will positively affect you.

7. The more threatening the stressor, the high the level of physical and psychological response that will be necessary to reestablish homeostasis. Meaning of the stressor to you Your appraisal is driven by processing information in the situation in which you find yourself Perception: processing information from your environment and evaluating it through your experiences and beliefs. Your perception will be the most important determinant of your responses.

8. Physiological stressors cause an increase in physical arousal or activation as well as changes in the nervous system and endocrine system. Physical signs of activation Increased heart rate Increased respiration Increased perspiration Dilated pupils Pooling of blood in large muscle groups Prepare the body for fight or flight

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10. Poor decision making Skill execution errors Excessive physical effort Feelings of fatigue Inability to breath

13. Fine motor movements Lower activation, very precise skills Gross motor movements Higher activation, whole body large muscle skills Skill level of performance High level players have automatic skills, without thought

14. Power lifting Football line play Figure skating Sprinting Wrestling

15. Basketball Volleyball Baseball/softball Distance events – Track Gymnastics Soccer

16. Basketball Free Throw Golf Diving Archery Field Goal Kicking

17. Threats of self-esteem Irrational beliefs and expectations Expectations of others Expectations for the performance Belief about your own abilities

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19. Psychological responses represent changing levels of anxiety.

20. Cognitive Anxiety: the though component (e.g. worry and apprehension) Somatic Anxiety: The degree of physical activation perceived.

21. Trait: a behavioral disposition to perceive as threatening circumstance that are objectively not dangerous and to then respond with disproportionate state anxiety. Highly trait-anxious people usually have more state anxiety in highly competitive, evaluative situations than do people who with lower trait anxiety. Proneness toward uncertainty or doubt Excitable Easily upset Emotional Difficult time controlling activation level due to their appraisal of stressors as more threatening than they may be State: a temporary, ever changing emotional state of subjective, consciously perceived feelings of apprehension and tension, associated with activation of the autonomic nervous systems. Temporary emotional state that fluctuates in intensity over time

22. Uncertainty Doubt Indecision Lack of confidence Poor attention Expectation of failure

23. Most researches believe that anxiety is learned through socialization and in manifested emotionally. Anxiety is your response to your perception of the situation. You need to be aware of your activation and not allowing that awareness to increase your anxiety.

25. You must know how your performance is being affected by your responses A combination of understanding what responses do not help and which interventions help can be a powerful approach to experiencing the performances that every athlete wants.

26. Butterflies Yawning Excitability Anticipation Some believe are signs of being ready and some as not being ready

27. This concept says that your performance will be determined by your ability to identify and access the zone where your activation, anxiety, and emotions work together for your performance. Your awareness of your thoughts and emotions, responses, and expectations is critical to you finding the zone where you can perform confidently and effectively. Internal conditions you cannot find this by comparing to others.

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