Human Performancemedium#943
The Yerkes-Dodson law states that performance:
A
always increases with stress
B
decreases linearly with stress
C
increases with stress to an optimal point, then decreases with further stress
CorrectD
is unaffected by stress
Explanation
The inverted-U model shows performance improves with arousal/stress up to an optimum, then degrades if stress continues to increase.
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