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Arousal |  | Arousal: Encyclopedia - Arousal |  | | Arousal is a physiological and psychological state involving the activation of the reticular activating system in the brain stem, the autonomic nervous system and the endocrine system, leading to increased heart rate and blood pressure and a condition of alertness and readiness to respond.
It is a crucial process in motivating certain behaviours, such as the fight or flight response and sexual activity (see Masters and Johnson's human sexual response cycle, w ...
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Arousal
Arousal is a physiological and psychological state involving the activation of the reticular activating system in the brain stem, the autonomic nervous system and the endocrine system, leading to increased heart rate and blood pressure and a condition of alertness and readiness to respond.
It is a crucial process in motivating certain behaviours, such as the fight or flight response and sexual activity (see Masters and Johnson's human sexual response cycle, where it is known as the arousal phase).
It is also thought to be crucial in emotion, and has been an important aspect of theories of emotion since early models such as the James-Lange theory of emotion.
The Yerkes-Dodson law is an empirical law which states a relationship between arousal and task performance, essentially arguing that there is an optimal level of arousal for performance, and too little or too much arousal can adversely affect task performance.
See also
- Emotion
- Sexual arousal
- Yerkes-Dodson law
Categories: Physiological psychology | Emotion
Other related archivesEmotion, James-Lange theory of emotion, Masters and Johnson's, Physiological psychology, Sexual arousal, Yerkes-Dodson law, autonomic nervous system, brain stem, emotion, endocrine system, fight or flight, human sexual response cycle, motivating, physiological, psychological, reticular activating system, sexual activity
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