In everyday pyschology, it is well known that too much stress can cause decline in performance. On the other hand, when people get too little stimulation, their performance suffers as well. Somewhere in the middle of this upside down U-shaped curve there is an optimum. This phenomenon was already described in 1908 and is now …
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Balancing cognitive load
Your brains like to work, else you get bored, lose attention and start making mistakes. Not too much at a time, though. When cognitive load is too high, you get stressed and start making mistakes as well. Fortunately, we do a pretty good job at giving ourselves just the right amount of brain activity: a …