Glossary D
Glossary D
Deutsch: Dodson-Gesetz / Español: ley de Dodson / Português: lei de Dodson / Français: loi de Dodson / Italiano: legge di Dodson
Dodson Law, also known as the Yerkes-Dodson Law, is a psychological principle that describes the relationship between arousal and performance. It states that performance improves with increased arousal up to an optimal level, but if arousal continues to rise beyond that point, performance begins to decline. This relationship is often illustrated as an inverted U-shaped curve, where moderate levels of arousal are associated with peak performance, while too little or too much arousal leads to suboptimal outcomes.
Doing refer to active behaviors such as walking, talking, runnung, writing or eating.
Domain specific capacities is defined as mental capacities or abilities that are useful for only one task or domain. For example, it would be Domain-specific capacity if the mental capacity responsible for language acquisition were used only to acquire language and nothing else.
Domain-general capacities is defined as mental capacities or abilities that are used for many different tasks and domains. For example, if the ability to detect patterns in input is used for acquiring language and for learning about the physical properties of the world, then pattern detection would be a Domain-general capacity.