Since Anxiety Can Hurt Test Performance,Thatcher Does Relaxation Exercises Before

question 8

Multiple Choice

Since anxiety can hurt test performance,Thatcher does relaxation exercises before a big exam.He is shocked when he does poorly on the exam.He would have been less surprised had he known about the relationship between physiological activation and performance,as described in

• A) self-determination theory.
• B) Cannon's theory of homeostasis.
• C) the Yerkes-Dodson law.
• D) Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

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