Supporting the Theory of Social Facilitation,Michaels Et Al (1982)watched Pool

question 108

Multiple Choice

Supporting the theory of social facilitation,Michaels et al (1982) watched pool players and found that

• A) good players performed better and poor players performed more poorly when observed.
• B) good players performed worse and poor players performed better when observed.
• C) both good and poor players performed better when observed.
• D) both good and poor players performed worse when observed.

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Definitions:

Probability

The chance or likelihood that a particular event will occur, quantified as a number between 0 (impossible) and 1 (certain).

Class Pass Rate

The percentage of students who pass a course out of the total number of students enrolled in that course.

Sampling Distribution

The likelihood distribution associated with a statistic derived from a random sample.

Standard Deviation

A gauge of how much the values in a collection scatter around the mean, reflecting the range of variation.