English Explanatory Dictionary

Yerkes-Dodson law

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

Yerkes-Dodson law the Yerkes-Dodson law

Etymology

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

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