EWT: Anxiety

What is meant by anxiety?

• Being content

• A state of physical, emotional and cognitive arousal

• Hyperventilating

• Being clumsy

What are some of the effects of anxiety?

• Feeling tense

• Gassy

• Increased heart rate

• Feeling fatigue

Johnson and Scott investigated...

• Inverted-U theory

• Misleading information

• Weapon focus effect

• Cognitive interview

What are the objects they used for the two conditions?

• Greased pencil and bloody gun

• Greased pen and bloody gun

• Bloody pen and greased knife

• Greased pen and bloody knife

They found that participants in the high anxiety condition had...

• Anxiety

• Poorer face recognition

• Better face recognition

• Blood pressure

Yuille and Cutshall's study was a...

• Natural experiment

• Lab experiment

• Field experiment

• Observation

How were the participants asked to rate their stress?

• From 1-10

• From a 5 point scale

• From a 7 point scale

• From not scared to scared

The relationship between anxiety and performance is...

• Linear

• Stagnant

• An inverted-U

• Negative

Who founded the the inverted-U law?

• Deffenbacher

• Yerkes and Dodson

• Loftus

• Pickel

Inverted-U is limited because...

• It focuses only on physiology

• It's a weird shape

• It has demand characteristics

• It's hard to draw