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It's depicted as a bell-shaped curve when plotted. A normal distribution is defined by a mean (average) of zero and a standard deviation of one with a skew of zero and kurtosis = 3.

Yerkes-Dodson curve The Yerkes-Dodson law can be depicted as an upside-down U-shaped curve. The left side of the curve represents low arousal, or stress. The right side represents high arousal.