Anxiety-johnson And Scott

Question 1

Anxiety

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Loftus and burns

Answer 2

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%

Question 3

Yerkes and Dodson

Answer 3

Relationship between performance and stress is curvilinear

Question 4

Bothwell

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Christianson and hubinette

Answer 5

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