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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"arousal theory"”.
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Arousal theory and the interrelationships of caffeine, nicotine and impulsivity
Nicotine, caffeine, impulsivity, and arousal are all intercorrelated: both drugs increase arousal, and impulsivity is theoretically related to arousal. However, the independent and joint effects of nicotine and caffeine on impulsive behavior are unclear. In this study, male college students (N = …
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Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia and Restricted Repetitive Behaviors in Autism Spectrum Disorder
… of RRBs in ASD have been proposed: the hyper-arousal theory, and the hypo-arousal theory. Both of these theories posit the autonomic nervous system (ANS) as being dysfunctional in ASD, resulting in the occurrence of RRBs. Many studies investigating ANS activity in ASD have focused solely on …
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Neuropsychological effects of anxiety without depression on facial affect perception
… stimuli. Results are discussed in terms of arousal theory, where anxious subjects may be considered overaroused for the tachistoscopic task, thereby exhibiting slower reaction times to affective stimuli. More specific neuropsychological hypotheses for anxious individuals without depression …
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Cerebral asymmetry in facial affect perception of women: neuropsychological effects of depression
… of an agitated, depressive state with heightened arousal. Further, depressed as compared to nondepressed women displayed significantly faster reaction times to sad faces presented their right visual fields and happy faces presented their left visual fields. For the dynamometer data, primary …
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Acute Effects of Smoking on Prose Memory and Physiological Arousal
… of varying nicotine yields had on physiological arousal and memory for prose passages.</p> <p>Forty-five male habitual smokers were assigned to either a placebo (0.1mg nicotine cigarette), a 0.7mg, or a 1.5mg nicotine cigarette group. All subjects were in good health, reported that they regularly …
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Potential relations between extraversion and cardiovascular reactivity during laboratory stressors
… relation between extraversion and physiological arousal, little is known about the ways in which extraversion and cardiovascular reactivity to stress are related. According to the optimal arousal theory, both extraverts and introverts would be expected to be more reactive to a social challenge …
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An Application of the Investment Model for Examining the Effects of Commitment, Self-Efficacy, and Goal Difficulty on Performance
… terms of task complexity, instrumentality, and arousal theory, and implications for future research and applications were discussed.</p>
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The Effect of Adding Relevant Music and Sound Effects to an Audio-Only Narration: A Three-Treatment Application of Mayer’s Coherence Principle
Sound effects and music can be used to complement instructional narrations in recorded media presentations. College students (n = 143) participated in a study examining the effects of music and sound effects on learning outcomes when compared to voice-only narration. Four groups of participants …