At the state fair, you enter a couple of different contests. The first is a blueberry pie eating contest, in which the person who eats the most pies in two minutes wins. The second is a 100-yard dash in which you must balance an egg on a spoon with one hand and in the other hand carry a tray with eight glasses on it. The person who reaches the finish line first while not spilling either the egg
or the glasses wins. Given your knowledge of the Yerkes-Dodson Law, your arousal should be
a. low for the pie eating contest and high for the egg-glasses race.
b. high for the pie eating contest and low for the egg-glasses race.
c. moderate for both contests.
d. high for both contests.
B
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