If the relationship between anxiety and performance on a task were positive, we would expect
A)anxiety to have minimal effect on performance.
B)performance to increase as anxiety decreases.
C)performance to increase as anxiety increases.
D)performance to decrease as anxiety increases.

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A positive relationship means that as one variable increases, the other variable also increases. Therefore, in this case, performance would increase as anxiety increases.

If the Relationship Between Anxiety and Performance on a Task