Stress: Coggie

Question 1

Which variables are closely related to stress

Answer 1

Anxiety

Arousal

Question 2

What is the yerkes-Dodson law used for?

Answer 2

To account for the relationship between stress and task performance

Question 3

What is the relationship between stress and task performance

Answer 3

Inverted u

Question 4

What does an individuals state of physical arousal determine

Answer 4

Their ability to perform certain tasks

Question 5

What are complex tasks performed better with

Answer 5

Lower levels of arousal

Question 6

Evaluation of yerkes-Dodson law

Answer 6

Robust.
Task performance doesn’t relate directly to specific cog processes and structures.
Doesn’t account for known effects of mediating psychological variables.

Question 7

Learned helplessness

Answer 7

Learned response to situations where you have no control and there is no predictability.

Question 8

Seligman (1975)

Answer 8

Dogs in cages unable to avoid electric shocks- never learned to avoid them even when it was possible.

Question 9

Katz and Wykes (1985)

Answer 9

Humans display less arousal and less distress when shocks were predictable.

Question 10

Key component of stress response

Answer 10

Appraisal of the potential stressor

Question 11

Lazarus and Folkman (1974)

Answer 11

Primary appraisal=deciding whether a problem exists.

Secondary appraisal=evaluating and deciding an appropriate response.

Question 12

Transactional stress model (Lazarus, 1999)

Answer 12

Starting point for understanding relationship between stress and performance.

Question 13

Mild stress effects

Answer 13

Can help cognitive performance on cognitively undemanding tasks

Question 14

High stress effects

Answer 14

Can impair formation of memories.

Question 15

Effects of stress are induced by

Answer 15

Intensity of stress.
Source of stress.
Duration of stress.
Nature of task.

Question 16

Examples of nature of task

Answer 16

Cognitive operation.
Information processing phases.
Individual differences.

Question 17

Palmer (2013)

Answer 17

Stress has significant detrimental impact on learning and cognitive function.

Question 18

Three main sites affected by stress hormones

Answer 18

Hippocampus (learning and memory).
Amygdala (fear and anxiety).
Pre frontal cortex (working memory and executive function).

Question 19

Effects of stress

Answer 19

Working memory reduced.
Speed-accuracy trade off.
Disrupts learning.
More likely to affect novices than experts.
Negatively affects complex rather than simple tasks.

Question 20

Attentional-based models

Answer 20

Stress narrows attention decreasing processing of irrelevant information-this is good.
Narrowed attention on demanding tasks-critical info not attended to.

Question 21

Stressors that affect working memory.

Answer 21

Sleep deprivation.
Threat manipulations.
Other environmental factors.