The effects of anxiety on EWT 0.0 / 5 ? PsychologyMemoryA2/A-levelAll boards Created by: KatieCreated on: 09-09-19 19:24 why does anxiety have a negative impact on EWT it creates physiological arousal in the body, preventing us from paying attention to important cues 1 of 28 what is a way to investigate the impact of anxiety on EWT effect of weapons 2 of 28 who carried out a study into weapon focus johnson and scott 3 of 28 what did they make their pp believe they were their to take part in a lab study. 4 of 28 what were the two conditions in johnson and scotts study low anxiety and high anxiety 5 of 28 what happens in the low anxiety condition a man walked through the waiting room with a pen and grease on his hands 6 of 28 what could pp hear in both conditions a heated arguement 7 of 28 what happened in the high anxiety condition argument + breaking glass + paper knife covered in blood 8 of 28 how many pp in the low anxiety condition could identify the man 49% 9 of 28 how many could identify the man in the high anxiety condition 33% 10 of 28 what theory was produced from johnson and scotts research tunnel theory 11 of 28 what is tunnel theory suggests witnesses attention focuses on weapon as it is a source of anxiety 12 of 28 how can anxiety improve our memory of events flight or fight creates alertness, making us more aware of cues 13 of 28 who investigated the positive effects of anxiety on recall yuille and cutshall 14 of 28 what did they do interviewed witnesses to a real shooting 4-5 months after the shooting. 15 of 28 how did yuille and cutshall test accuracy number of details reported about each account 16 of 28 what else did witnesses have to do rate how stressed they felt and report any emotional problems 17 of 28 what did yuille and cutshall find pp who had the highest levels of stress were the most accurate 18 of 28 who explains the contradictory findings yerkes and dodson 19 of 28 what do they suggest arousal and performance looks like an inverted U on a graph 20 of 28 what did kenneth deffenbacher do applied yerkes dodson to ewt 21 of 28 what does yerkes dodson's law suggest performance will increase with stress, but only to a point where it will then decrease 22 of 28 what is a weakness of yerkes dodson anxiety has lots of cognitive, behavioural and emotional levels but yerkes dodson is just linking it to physiological anxiety 23 of 28 what is a problem when investgating anxiety ethics - you may create psychological har, purely for research purposes (johnson and scott where also deceptive) 24 of 28 whose experiment contradicts weapon focus pickel 25 of 28 what did he do he replaced the weapon with a handgun, wallet and raw chicken 26 of 28 what did pickel find EWT was poorest in unusual situation (gun/chicken) 27 of 28 what does this suggest about weapon focus not about anxiety just suprise/unusualness 28 of 28
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