During heightened states of arousal, awareness typically decreases.
During heightened states of arousal, awareness typically decreases.
Arousal is a state that is physiological and leads to psychological and emotional changes, it is a state of being wherein an individual. It is the ascending reticular system that is activated in order to achieve a state of arousal that allows for a state of perception. Arousal is a term widely used to describe heightened alertness to surroundings leading to better cognition, attention, information processing and memory retrieval. It allows an individual to direct their energy towards activities encouraging arousal such as sports, fight and flight responses, sexual activities etc.
Awareness is being conscious of one's surroundings and situations and appropriately reacting to them. The Individual is typically expected to be cognizant of their environment, perceiving and formulating responses.
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