PSQF 1075 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10-11: Test Anxiety, Cyberbullying

• School: University of Iowa
• Department: Psychological and Quantitative Foundations
• Course: PSQF 1075
• Professor: Mitchell Kelly

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Arousal: physical and psychological reactions causing a person to be alert, attentive, and wide awake, high arousal is generally helpful on easy tasks, but debilitative on difficult tasks. Needs: deficiency needs: when these are satisfied, the motivation for fulfilling them decreases, growth or being needs: as these needs are satisfied, motivation increases to seek further fulfillment. Trait anxiety distinction: state anxiety: a transitory reaction to stressful situations, trait anxiety: a permanent aspect of personality, what causes test anxiety in some people? a) Interference effects on attention (dual task situation: learning deficit model (good reason to be anxious, studies have shown high anxious students perform significantly worse than low anxious students on take-home exams c. i) what does this suggest? (c. i. 1) Problems in organization, even in non-evaluative situations (note cards for exams in this class) Individualistic: reaching my goal is independent of others.