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so drive reduction requires meeting the need with food. Hull’s theory also states that ‘high drive’ helps perform easy tasks, but inhibits harder tasks. According to Deckers (2010), “Spence and his associates (1956a, 1956b) employed Hull’s (1943, 1952) drive concept to account for the finding that high drive or arousal aids in the performance of easy tasks but hinders the performance of difficult tasks” (Hull-Spence Theory, p. 11). The study of word association reveals individuals with a high drive learn easy word association tasks quickly, but individuals with a low drive learn difficult word association faster (Decker, 2010).
According to Deckers (2010), “The Cue utilization hypothesis holds that the number of cues or amount of information utilized by a person in any situation tends to decline with an increase in arousal” (Cue Utilization Hypothesis, p. 12). In the event of a trauma, an individual is more likely to remember the central events that took place ...

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