As this is a something I studied in terms of sport, I had to start by actually defining what arousal is?
Arousal is a stimulation that causes a person to perform.
This then led me to think of my own personal experiences in sport. When have I been pumped up for a game of football? When has this led me to perform better? Maybe in a cup final, when you are really energetic and alive because you know that the game has extra meaning and importance. This can therefore give us that extra bit in the tank. To sprint for that ball in the last minute of the game were before we would have let the opponent take the ball.
Everyone one has heard the phrase 'I'm pumped up for this', this is an example of arousal but how do we gain this emotion? There are psychological elements aswell as physiological parts.
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