Since anxiety can hurt test performance, Thatcher does relaxation exercises before a big exam.He is shocked when he does poorly on the exam. He would have been less surprised had he known about the relationship between physiological activation and performance, as described in
What will be an ideal response?
the Yerkes-Dodson law.
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What was the main point that Hans Selye emphasized about stress? a. The body reacts to difficult life events like it reacts to disease
b. The way people react to stress closely resembles that of other animals. c. People vary genetically in their ability to recover from stressful experiences. d. A feeling of personal rejection is the most harmful type of stress.
Emil's friend asks how well Emil gets along with his younger brother. Emil thinks about how irritating his younger brother was yesterday, and the big fight they had as a result, and tells his friend that he doesn't get along with his brother at all. In this instance, Emil's response is consistent with:
a. a framing effect b. functional fixedness c. the representativeness heuristic d. the availability heuristic
Maricella has always been drawn to the saying "Absence makes the heart grow fonder," and she decides to incorporate this saying into her research project. Maricella is trying to define absence in a way that can be empirically tested. She is attempting to find an appropriate __________.
A. hypothesis B. operationalization C. double-blind study D. theory
Persistence of long-term potentiation for more than an hour requires
a. formation of new axonal spines. b. presynaptic inhibition of glutamate release. c. increased protein synthesis within the postsynaptic dendrite. d. insertion of GABA receptors into the postsynaptic membrane. e. destruction of AMPA receptors in the postsynaptic membrane.