The impact of acute stress on cognitive functioning: a matter of cognitive demands?

作者: Thomas Plieger , Andrea Felten , Elena Diks , Jessica Tepel , Melanie Mies

DOI: 10.1080/13546805.2016.1261014

关键词: PsychologyCognitive loadExecutive functionsStressorCognitionStress (linguistics)Developmental psychologyCold pressor testAcute stressCognitive skill

摘要: ABSTRACTIntroduction: There is a controversy in the literature whether stress and related cortisol responses are beneficial or impairing for cognitive functioning. Conflicting results might be due to individual differences reactivity load of applied tasks.Methods: N = 48 participants underwent Socially Evaluated Cold Pressor Test were confronted with Frankfurter Aufmerksamkeits-Inventar-2 (FAIR-2) which low-load attention task two subscales Intelligenz-Struktur-Test 2000 R (I-S-T 2000R) as high-load reasoning before after stressor. Participants post hoc divided into high (stress induced increase ≥1.5 nmol/l) vs. low-cortisol responders.Results: Cortisol responders showed an increased attentional performance post-stress condition (η2 > .14). However, there neither responder main effects nor interaction effect on abilities.Conclusions: Results present study show that relat...

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