Anxiety-johnson And Scott Flashcards

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Anxiety

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State of emotional and physical arousal. Increase due to increased alertness decrease because of distraction
Physical changes-increased heart rate,sweating
Emotional-fear and worry

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Loftus and burns

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266 ps shown the same film of a bank robbery violent or non violent
Less accurate in recall of details. Number on the boys shirt
Violent 4.3% non violent 27.9%

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Yerkes and Dodson

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Relationship between performance and stress is curvilinear

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Bothwell

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Individual differences had not been considered
Assessed ps on their levels of neuroticism
Those labelled stable showed more accuracy as stress increased

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Christianson and hubinette

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Study to show generalisations cannot be made.
Questioned 110 witnesses of 22 crimes
Actual victims were more accurate
Memory is more accurate in highly stressful situations in real life

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