Yerkes-Dodson law

English

Etymology

Developed in 1908 by psychologists Robert M. Yerkes and John Dillingham Dodson.

Proper noun

the Yerkes-Dodson law

  1. A law of psychology stating that performance increases with physiological or mental arousal, but only up to a point, beyond which it decreases.
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