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psychology - Coggle Diagram
psychology
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Arousal
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Catastrophe theory
Performance increases with arousal until a certain point where arousal gets too high performance dramatically decreases.
inverted U
Performance increases with arousal until it reaches a certain point where arousal gets too high and performance begins to slowly decrease.
Anxiety
State anxiety
Situationally relevant, in that it is the individual’s response to a particular threatening situation
Trait anxiety
A general disposition to respond to relatively unthreatening situations with a disproportionately high level of state anxiety.
Personality characteristic reflecting individual susceptibility to state anxiety
Reversal theory
High arousal and anxiety is because we are threatened of failing. Reverse the way you think and suggest that we feel like this because we are excited about the performance