Arousal
- Created by: lucyholly16
- Created on: 01-02-15 13:53
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- Arousal
- Drive Theory
- Directly proportional - more aroused you are the harder you will perform
- Level of arousal matches level of performance
- Core skills must be mastered
- Dominant response - the way we react to situations
- Inverted 'U' Theory
- Performance improves as arousal increases but only to optimum state
- Once past optimum level, performance will drop
- Depends on personality of individual
- Catastrophe Theory of Arousal
- Relationship between somatic arousal (physiological) & cognitive arousal (worry)
- Similar to the Inverted 'U' theory - claims that as somatic arousal increases then the quality of performance increases
- Adds an extra stage - only reach maximum potential at the optimum level only if cognitive arousal is kept low.
- Drive Reduction
- Term given to loss of motivation - during performance
- Initially there is a great drive or motivation to solve new problems
- Performer will take action to satisfy the drive/motivation - through practice (skill becomes strong and automatic)
- At this point the drive or motivation to continue performing the skill is reduced
- Drive Theory
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