The Facilitation of the Dominant Response from Increased Arousal Will

question 32

Multiple Choice

The facilitation of the dominant response from increased arousal will tend to

• A) make familiar tasks easier but unfamiliar tasks more challenging.
• B) make both easy and difficult tasks easier.
• C) have no effect on easy tasks, but will make difficult tasks more challenging.
• D) have no effect on challenging tasks, but will make easy tasks easier.

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Definitions:

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