MOTIVATION EMOTION AND STRESS
THEORIES AND PHYSIOLOGY OF EMOTION
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Generally, performance is optimal when arousal is low.
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Generally, performance is optimal when arousal is high.
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On easy tasks, performance is optimal when arousal is low.
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On easy tasks, performance is optimal when arousal is high.
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Detailed explanation-1: -This relationship is known as Yerkes-Dodson law, which holds that a simple task is performed best when arousal levels are relatively high and complex tasks are best performed when arousal levels are lower.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Yerkes-Dodson Law suggests that there is a relationship between performance and arousal. Increased arousal can help improve performance, but only up to a certain point. At the point when arousal becomes excessive, performance diminishes.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Yerkes-Dodson law describes the relationship between arousal, motivation, and performance.
Detailed explanation-4: -Drive Theory This is a linear relationship between arousal and performance, as arousal increases sot ot does performance. However evidence suggests that this theory is only relevant up to a point, after which an athlete can be over aroused and performance decreases.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Yerkes–Dodson law is an empirical relationship between pressure and performance, originally developed by psychologists Robert M. Yerkes and John Dillingham Dodson in 1908. The law dictates that performance increases with physiological or mental arousal, but only up to a point.