Consistent with the Social Facilitation Effect, Michaels and His Colleagues

question 74

Multiple Choice

Consistent with the social facilitation effect, Michaels and his colleagues (1982) found that when good pool players were observed, they did _______ than when they did not know they were being observed.

• A) much worse
• B) better
• C) the same
• D) slightly worse

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