Baby Alec squints his face, squeezes his fists, and tightens up his body muscles. His mother immediately runs over to try to soothe him. Alecs actions demonstrate that ____.
a. emotions are easily communicated through nonverbal means
b. complex emotions require maturity
c. emotions drive classical conditioning
d. without language, emotions are abstractions
Question 2
According to the YerkesDodson law, ____ (Yerkes & Dodson, 1908).
a. the ideal amount of arousal interacts with the complexity of a task to determine performance
b. performance and arousal function independently of each other, but are both impacted by task complexity
c. heightened arousal leads to heightened performance on complex tasks
d. dampened arousal disinhibits instinctive behaviors but inhibits acquired behaviors
