Motor performance under stress: a test of the inverted-U hypothesis.

Investigated whether the relationship between arousal and motor performance among junior high school males supports the inverted U hypothesis. Based on the CMA scale, Ss were either low, medium, or high in trait anxiety and were subjected to 1 of 3 levels of psychological stress. A 3 × 3 factorial d

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