Your Physician Tells You to Get More Exercise

question 124

Multiple Choice

Your physician tells you to get more exercise.The same day,on a late-night infomercial,your brother watches a washed-up celebrity tell the public they need to get more exercise.According to research on the sleeper effect,who is more likely to be thinking about buying a gym membership about a month later?

• A)You are
• B)Your brother is
• C)Neither you nor your brother
• D)Both you and your brother

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Definitions:

Social Loafing

The phenomenon where individuals exert less effort when working in a group than when working alone, due to perceived diffusion of responsibility.

Pseudogroups

Temporary or makeshift groups with minimal integration or common identity, often lacking the cohesion or dynamics of more formally established groups.

Disjunctive Task

A type of group task in which the group's performance is determined by the best-performing individual within the group.

Conjunctive Task

A task that requires all group members to contribute for the task to be successfully completed; performance is determined by the least capable member.