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Question 21

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How might having your mother and father at your first piano recital affect your performance?

A) Their presence will likely not improve it.
B) Their presence will improve it.
C) Their presence does not affect it.
D) Their presence makes negatively affects it.

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Question 22

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According to Brown and Paulus (2002) , which of the following enhance(s) brainstorming:

A) Combining group and solitary brainstorming.
B) Having group members interact by writing.
C) Incorporating electronic brainstorming.
D) All of these choices.

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Question 23

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Social loafing refers to the tendency for people to

In a study by Sweeney (1973) , students pumped exercise bicycles more energetically when they

Evidence that contradicts Zajonc's mere presence theory of social facilitation is that when observers are blindfolded, their presence

Social loafing would be most likely to occur in

According to Butler and Baumeister, how does a supportive audience affect a person's performance?

Research suggests that social loafing does not occur in

On Halloween night, Diener and colleagues conducted a study of trick-or-treat theft. Given a chance to steal candy, the children who were __________ were most likely to commit transgressions.

According to the text, one contributing factor to the Canadian Airborne officers' participation in the beating death of a Somali boy may have been that

In which of the following situations would the social facilitation effect most likely occur?

Which of the following characteristics define(s) what a group is?

According to your text, Captain Smith of the Titanic believed that "God himself could not sink this ship." Which symptom of groupthink is most indicative of his belief?

Barbara is a professor and gives lectures to groups of students ranging from 40 to 100. She is never anxious, enjoys giving these lectures, and doesn't have many problems speaking in front of the students. However, at a conference, Barbara has been asked to speak in front of a group of approximately 1000 of her academic peers. Based on the principles in your text, Barbara is most likely to

Compared to self-aware people, deindividuated people are

Zimbardo explained the greater vandalism of an abandoned car left in New York than one left in Palo Alto in terms of the greater ___________ of the large city.

People who are made self-aware-by acting in front of a mirror or TV camera, for example-have been found to

Zimbardo reported that women who were masked and hooded in KKK-style hoods and robes tended to ___________________ than women who were visible and wore name tags.

According to Festinger, it is human nature to want to evaluate our opinions by

Failing to ask questions in class because you assume everyone else understands best exemplifies