Arousal

Definition:
A state of alertness and mental and physical activation. Gen Psych, Chapter 9, pp. 285

Examples:
Arousal can effect sport performance, for example if you have poor arousal, you will not be ready for a sports game and won't perform to the standard of that sport. If you have good arousal, your performance will be better as you will be ready for a performance.

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Analogies:
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Mnemonics:
Level of Arousal

Some (Sleep) Boring (Boredom) Mothers (Mild alertness) Only (Optimal level) Serve (Stress) Apple (Anxiety) Pie (Panic) (give a mnemonic in place of the bracketed text above, then delete these instructions. If you don't know of any examples, leave this section unchanged for someone else to improve on.)

In the News:
Are sensational news stories more likely to trigger viewers attention? [|Article from European Journal of Communication] [|www.nwlink.com/~donclark/performance/arousal.html]

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