The Local Basketball Team Consistently Performs Better in Front of the Home

question 233

Multiple Choice

The local basketball team consistently performs better in front of the home crowd on their home court. This BEST illustrates:

• A)social facilitation.
• B)risky shift.
• C)deindividuation.
• D)the bystander effect.

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Definitions:

Reflex

A rapid, automatic response to a stimulus, an unconscious process that protects the body from harm or promotes adaptive functions.

Conditioned Stimulus

An initially neutral stimulus that, after being associated with an unconditioned stimulus, comes to trigger a conditioned response in classical conditioning.

Unconditioned Stimulus

An unconditioned stimulus is something that naturally and automatically triggers a response without any learning being involved.

Conditioned Response

A learned response to a previously neutral stimulus through conditioning.