Stress & Performance: Yerkes-Dodson's law

In the last byte, we looked at benefits of eustress and costs of distress summarized. In today's byte we look at Yerkes-Dodson's law.

The Yerkes-Dodson's law indicates the relationship between stress and performance. The following diagram in many ways summarizes what happens.

The above diagram indicates that there exists an optimal point for performance. As stress increases, we find initially that there is a raise in the performance too, this is so till an optimal point (the zone of eustress) beyond which any increase in stress would begin being detrimental for the performance.

We shall analyze this further in the next byte.