Key words: senior high school entrance examination, college entrance examination, yerkes-dodson law, internal drive, internal motivation.
Anyone who has experienced an academic career may have had an experience. A classmate who studied very well suddenly decided to take a major in the future. He got a very low score in that senior high school entrance examination or college entrance examination and failed.
This is also a phenomenon that many parents and children are afraid of: many children seem to study hard and usually do well in unit tests and quizzes, but they often fail in final or decisive exams.
Many parents often attribute it to improvisation, but it is not.
Ned Johnson, a famous tutor of adolescent learning skills, parent-child interaction and anxiety management, paid attention to the first thing in his coaching career. Many children usually do well in the exam, but once they take the formal college selection exam, they will make mistakes. Is there really something wrong?
Ned searched a lot of relevant literature and had a lot of discussions with many scientists in the fields of brain science and psychology. Finally, he found that this phenomenon, which usually performed well and failed in the final exam, was very consistent with yerkes-dodson law in psychology.
What is yerkes-dodson Law?
1, noun explanation
Yerkes-dodson Law was put forward by two psychologists, Robert Jaxx and John dodson, in the early 20th century.
According to Yerkes-dodson Law, people's performance level will increase to a certain extent with the increase of physical and psychological arousal, and then it will begin to decline, and all this requires a certain degree of arousal (from curiosity, excitement or slight pressure) to make the spirit reach the best acute degree.
Although yerkes-dodson's law holds that mild stress is also one of the ways to awaken people's physiology and psychology, excessive stress will also crush people's physiological and psychological reactions, resulting in very low brain efficiency.
Then it can be judged that the children who usually perform well and fail in the big exam, in addition to how abnormal the pressure is, there is another situation that the child's brain reaction is in a trough, but it has not been effectively awakened.
2. The form of yerkes-dodson law:
① There are different forms of homework for male and female students.
Brain science research has proved that the brains of boys and girls process dopamine in different ways. Girls will finish their homework more actively and win the favor of teachers and parents, while boys often don't finish their homework until the last minute.
This is not boys' fun, but the best stress level of girls, which is not enough to motivate boys; Boys' brains often need to be under more urgent pressure to activate dopamine and produce efficient actions.