Robert Mearns Yerkes (May 26, 1876 February 3, 1956) was an American psychologist, ethologist, and primatologist best known for his work in intelligence ...
Hoover Elementary School Langhorne PA 1989-1991, Lower Bucks Christian Academy Levittown PA 1991-1992, Poquessing Junior High School Feasterville PA 1992-1993
While the role of motivation on the performance of behavioural tasks has been known for more than a century thanks to the work of psychologists Robert Yerkes and John Dilligham Dodson its precise effect on the brain remains unclear.For more than a century it has been known that a relationship between motivation and performance exists thanks to the work of American psychologists Robert Yerkes and John Dilligham Dodson. Too much or too little motivation is detrimental to performance. However, the way in which this impacts our ne