When Is a Person MOST Likely to Engage in an Elaborate,thoughtful

question 64

Multiple Choice

When is a person MOST likely to engage in an elaborate,thoughtful process of causal attribution to understand an event?

• A)when the event clearly fits a schema from personal experience
• B)when the event clearly fits a schema from the broader culture
• C)when the event is something that has happened many times before
• D)when the event is completely unexpected

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Definitions:

Social Facilitation

The tendency for people to perform differently, usually better, when in the presence of others than when alone.

Evaluation Apprehension

Anxiety or fear about being judged or evaluated by others, which can affect performance and participation.

Social Identity

A person's sense of who they are, based on their group membership(s), which shapes their feelings and behavior towards in-group and out-group members.

Steiner's Typology

A classification system proposed by Ivan Steiner that categorizes group tasks based on their nature, such as additive, disjunctive, conjunctive, and compensatory, to understand the impact of group interaction on performance.