You Have Just Listened to Your Professor Lecture for an Hour

question 25

Multiple Choice

You have just listened to your professor lecture for an hour about material that you find thoroughly confusing.When the professor asks if anyone has any questions,you look around to other students in the class but no one else puts up their hand so you assume you are the only one that is confused.This is an example of

• A)social loafing
• B)pluralistic ignorance
• C)deindividuation
• D)diffusion of responsibility

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