Kevin, a basketball player for City High School, sinks thirty straight free throws during practice. However, during the critical
game of the season, with the score tied and twenty seconds left to play, Kevin misses three consecutive free throws. Kevin's behavior can best be explained by __________ theory.
This theory explains that people or individuals always seeks to attain the optimal level of arousal and thus will perform actions that strives to maintain such height.
Arousal theory of motivation’s directly affects an individual performances and following Yerkes-Dodson Law, implies that higher levels of arousal will improve performance till it reaches the optimum height, after which performance start to drop with further extreme increase or decrease in arousal which will cause such individual to loose concentration in performing an action.
Here, Kevin, a basketball player sinks thirty straight free throws during practice but during the critical game of the season, with the score tied and twenty seconds left to play, Kevin misses three consecutive free throws. Kevin's behavior can best be explained by arousal theory because his arousal levels was too high causing him to loose concentration and perform badly.
