Leo was sitting in his history class and was extremely bored by the lecture. before he knew it, he was doodling all over his notes and found himself thinking of what else he could draw. which theory of motivation best describes why leo began drawing

The theory of motivation that describes Leo is the arousal theory. It is the theory where in it makes a person act or performance to improve when the person has an increase arousal. It could be seen above as Leo has an increase arousal in doodling that makes him want to draw more and think of what to doodle next because this made his performance to improve or increase.