AS - PE - Arousal
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- Created on: 04-02-11 18:23
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Arousal
'Arousal is the degree/intensity of excitement that prepares the person for performance'
Drive Theory:
- An increase in arousal is proportional to an increase in quality of performance
- But depends how well the skill has been learned……
- Actions that have already been learned tend to be our dominant response
- When pressured to respond our dominant response is most likely to occur
- Hull suggested that as arousal increases more
- likely dominant response will occur
Inverted U Theory(Yerkes and Dobson):
- An increase in arousal will lead to an increase in performance
- Only up to an optimal point of moderate arousal
- Over/under arousal beyond this point will lead to a decrease in performance and potential to learn
- Every individual has a different optimal point
Under-Arousal:
- Field of attention widdens
- Inability to focus on relevant…
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