Contestants in a Talent Show Have Been Asked to Write

question 84

Multiple Choice

Contestants in a talent show have been asked to write a speech on Martin Luther King. Based on Zajonc's research on social facilitation-impairment we can expect that contestants perform _________ on the speech writing task when watched by an audience ________ when they write the speech without an audience.

• A) Better; than
• B) Slightly better; than
• C) Worse; than
• D) The same; as

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