Introduction to Psychology 10th Edition by Rod Plotnik,Haig Kouyoumdjian

Exercise 12

Your performance on a task depends on the amount of physiological arousal and the difficulty of the task. For many tasks, moderate arousal helps performance; for new or difficult tasks, low arousal is better; and for easy or well-learned tasks, high arousal may facilitate performance. This relationship between arousal and performance is known as the _____.