The Resident Assistant of a Campus Residence Hall Notices That

question 49

Multiple Choice

The resident assistant of a campus residence hall notices that when a team of five students is assigned to bathroom duty,the bathrooms are not as well cleaned as when only one student is assigned to clean them.What phenomenon does this example illustrate?

• A) social facilitation
• B) group decline
• C) social inhibition
• D) social loafing
• E) a minimal group paradigm

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Definitions:

Skeletal Responses

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Mechanical boxes that are designed to be opened through a series of manipulations as part of a problem-solving task, often used in animal behavior studies.

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