Exam 5: Anxiety in Sport and Exercise

Unidimensional theories of arousal and anxiety,such as the drive theory and inverted- U theory,are largely ignored by sport and exercise anxiety researchers.

Anxiety disruptions to performance may be either cognitive or physiological in nature.

Which theory suggests that a hockey player's optimal intensity bar of competitive state anxiety is individual and is dependent upon the player,not the type of sport or sport skills that the athlete is to perform?

When exercisers who are high social physique anxiety workout in a room with mirrors,they also tend to have anxiety.

Social physique anxiety is more likely to be higher among exercising women than exercising men.

A basketball player who has a high tendency to experience anxiety in most competitive situations would probably report having more anxiety prior to the championship game compared to other players who have lower tendencies.