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What is facilitative stress? |
Anything that arouses us, alerts us, prods us to action, thrills us, or makes us eager. |
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What is stress? |
The body’s reaction to any change that requires an adjustment or response. |
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Name three types of reactions to stress. |
Chemical process. Adrenaline and non-adrenaline and glucocorticoids. The heart beats faster. |
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What is a threat? |
A self perceived imbalance between the demands made on a person and the resources he or she can apply to satisfying those demands. |
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True or false: stress is not personal. |
False. It is very personal. |
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True or false: the less time I have, the more likely I am to make an error. |
True |
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What are the three parts of general adaptation syndrome (GAS)? |
An “alarm reaction” representing a general call to arms of the body’s defensive forces including changes in body temperature, blood pressure, and hormonal secretions. A “stage of resistance” in which there is an adaptation to the stressor and the reduction or even disappearance of the elements of the alarm reaction. A “stage of exhaustion” when the compensatory measures in the resistance stage deplete the available resources. |
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True or false: memory Performance can be enhanced by stress. |
True |
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Stress seems to have generally impairing affects on what type of memory retrieval? |
Declarative |
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What are issues in decision making when it comes to cue reception? |
Attention to a limited number of cues. Cue primacy (anchoring - inattention to later cues). Cue salience. |
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What are issues and decision making when it comes to hypothesis generation? |
Limited hypothesis. Availability heuristic. Confirmation bias. Overconfidence. |
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What is cognitive tunneling? |
Psychological state, typical of people concentrating on a demanding task or operating under conditions of stress, in which a single, narrowly defined category of information is attended to and processed.. |
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What are some other terms for cognitive tunneling? |
Perceptual blindness. Inattentive blindness. Cognitive capture. |
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True or false: cognitive tunneling does not help us as a species. |
False. It serves us well. It allows us to ignore other stimuli and distractions and allows us to focus on a single object of interest. You can also have serious negative consequences when it limits our ability to process peripheral information because we are overcommitted to some central issue. |
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True or false: cognitive tunneling is worse for younger people. |
False. It gets worse as you get older. |
