Attitude Change Increases as a Function of Fear Up to a Medium

question 74

Multiple Choice

Attitude change increases as a function of fear up to a medium level of arousal; after that it declines again due to a lack of attention and/or the disruptive effect of intense emotion. This typifies the:

• A) sine curve.
• B) J-curve.
• C) U-curve.
• D) inverted U-curve.

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Definitions:

Summation

The process of adding together excitatory postsynaptic potentials (EPSPs).

Temporal

Relating to time or denoting time as opposed to space.

Spatial Summation

A mechanism in neural communication where multiple presynaptic neurons together stimulate a postsynaptic neuron to threshold, causing it to fire an action potential.

Synaptic Terminal

The end part of an axon that makes a synaptic contact with another neuron or with a muscle or gland cell.