Stress Performance Graph Interpretation
The relationship between stress (or arousal) and performance is often represented graphically. The X-axis typically shows increasing levels of stress, while the Y-axis shows the level of performance.
Understanding the Optimal Stress Level
Research, often summarized by the Yerkes-Dodson Law, suggests:
- Low stress levels are associated with low performance.
- Performance increases as stress levels rise, but only up to a certain point.
- Excessively high stress levels lead to a decline in performance.
This relationship typically forms an inverted U-shaped curve on the graph.
Locating Best Performance on the Graph
The highest point on the performance curve represents the best performance. This peak occurs when the stress level is moderate, not too low and not too high. Therefore, on the graph:
- The lower end of the X-axis (low stress) corresponds to low performance.
- The higher end of the X-axis (high stress) corresponds to declining performance.
- The middle portion of the X-axis represents the optimal balance, leading to the highest level of performance.
Consequently, the best performance is expected when stress levels are moderate, corresponding to the middle portion of the X-axis.
Important Questions from Psychology and Life - Teaching
- In which of Piaget's stages of development would a child be when he has just developed object permanence ?
- According to Negative State Relief Model, people provide help to others because :
1. People provide help to others to regulate their moods.
2. Helping is a means to momentarily boost emotion.
3. People provide help due to the fear of the consequences of help.
4. It bolsters their spirit over long periods.
Codes: - Read each of the following two statements – Assertion (A) and Reason (R) and indicate your answer using the codes given below :
Assertion (A): Transpersonal psychotherapy views man as a spiritual being, views consciousness as central to therapy and emphasizes emotions, feelings and experimental aspects of the client.
Reason (R): Self-acceptance, flexibility, recognition and awareness are some important concepts of Rational Emotive behaviour therapy.
Codes: - Read each of the following two statements – Assertion (A) and Reason (R) and indicate your answer using the codes given below :
Assertion (A): Organizational justice is perception of what is fair in the workplace composed of distributive, procedural and interactional justice.
Reason (R) : Employees have greater tolerance of overpayment inequities than underpayment inequities as part of distributive justice.
Codes: - A strategy designed to gain favourable response to a small request at first, with the intent of making the person more likely to agree later to a larger request is known as
