Memory: Anxiety AO3

Question 1

CONTRADICTORY FINDINGS
What is did Yerkes & Dodson say?

Answer 1

Recall is less accurate when anxiety is at very high or very low levels than if anxiety is at an optimal point (Imagine a normal distribution curve).

Question 2

STRENGTHS (FOR NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF ANXIETY)
What did Valentine and Mesout do?

Answer 2

• Measure heart rate of both high and low anxiety groups.

Question 3

STRENGTHS (FOR NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF ANXIETY)
What did Valentine and Mesout find?

Answer 3

• Found out that anxiety disrupted the recall of participants when asked to recall details of an actor at the London Dungeon.

Question 4

STRENGTHS (FOR POSITIVE EFFECTS OF ANXIETY)
What did Christianson & Hubinette do?

Answer 4

• Interviewed the witnesses to bank robberies in Sweden

Question 5

STRENGTHS (FOR POSITIVE EFFECTS OF ANXIETY)
Who were the witnesses in Christianson & Hubinette’s study?

Answer 5

DIRECTLY INVOLVED- bank staff
INDIRECTLY INVOLVED- bystanders

Question 6

STRENGTHS (FOR POSITIVE EFFECTS OF ANXIETY)
What did Christianson & Hubinette’s find?

Answer 6

Bank staff had the most accurate recall.