At the State Fair, You Enter a Couple of Different

question 77

Multiple Choice

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 beverage glasses on it, and 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.

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