{"id":75311,"date":"2025-11-14T20:49:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T20:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/the-basic-idea-of-bioequilibrium-or-optimal-levels-of-the-yerkes-dodson-law\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T20:49:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T20:49:11","slug":"the-basic-idea-of-bioequilibrium-or-optimal-levels-of-the-yerkes-dodson-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/the-basic-idea-of-bioequilibrium-or-optimal-levels-of-the-yerkes-dodson-law\/","title":{"rendered":"The Basic Idea of Bioequilibrium or Optimal Levels of the Yerkes-Dodson Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>scientists Robert Yerkes and John Dodson (1908) proposed that there is an inverted U-shaped curve of normal distribution between excitation and performance.<br \/>\n1) Too low motivation \u2192 low performance due to boredom or laziness.<br \/>\n2) Optimal motivation \u2192 optimal performance.<br \/>\n3) Too much motivation \u2192 low performance due to excessive tension and anxiety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>scientists Robert Yerkes and John Dodson (1908) proposed that there is an inverted U-shaped curve of normal distribution between excitation and performance. 1) Too low motivation \u2192 low performance due to boredom or laziness. 2) Optimal motivation \u2192 optimal performance. 3) Too much motivation \u2192 low performance due to excessive tension and anxiety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1-14-key-psychological-concepts-in-ecological-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}