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Arousal-Activation discrimination in sport rifle shooting

Arousal at a particular time has been defined as the energetic state at that time, reflected in electrodermal activity and measured by skin conductance level; and "task related activation" as the change in arousal from a resting baseline to the task situation. The present study, replicating some aspects of a previous investigation of these ideas in children and adults, aimed to investigate whether this terminology was applicable in terms of behavioral performance in a sport task. A standard air shooting task was used with elite shooters. Twenty three national and county champions (mean age= 29.9 years) voluntarily took part in the study. Skin Conductance Level (SCL) was recorded as an index of arousal. Several performance measures, as dependent variables were also electronically recorded. It was found that most performance measures decreased with increasing activation, but not with arousal. These findings support our previous suggestions concerning the value of conceptualizing arousal and activation as separable aspects of the energetic of physiological and behavioral function. The results are discussed in relation to the significance of current hypotheses explaining arousal-performance relationship.