Yerkes–Dodson law

Yerkes–Dodson law

a law stating that the relation between motivation (arousal) and performance can be represented by an inverted U-curve (see inverted-U hypothesis). [Robert M. Yerkes and John Dillingham Dodson(1879–1955), U.S. psychologists]

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