You Are Leading a Group of 25 Adults on a Tour

question 286

Multiple Choice

You are leading a group of 25 adults on a tour of your campus and as you pass the tennis courts, you all stop to watch. Half of the courts contain students who are just learning to play tennis, while next to them are several exceptional tennis players from your college tennis team. According to the social facilitation effect, which of the following would you expect?

• A) The novice tennis players should perform worse, while the expert tennis players should perform better.
• B) Both the novice and expert tennis players should perform better.
• C) Both the novice and expert tennis players should perform worse.
• D) The expert tennis players should perform worse, while the novice tennis players should perform better.

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Definitions:

Walking Purchase

A 1737 agreement between the Penn family, the proprietors of Pennsylvania, and the Lenape Indians, which fraudulently expanded Pennsylvania territory by utilizing a forged document.

Lenni Lenape Indians

A Native American tribe originally inhabiting parts of the Northeastern United States, also known as the Delaware Indians.

Inconsequential

means not important or significant; having little or no importance.

Deceptive

Pertaining to or involving deceit; misleading or giving a false impression.