Eight People Are Participating Together in a Lab Study on Group

question 152

Multiple Choice

Eight people are participating together in a lab study on group performance. Four people have been labeled as "Group A" and four have been labeled as "Group B". Each person has their group label attached to their shirt. They are asked to allocate some resources for another part of the experiment and to rate the participants on a number of scales. In this study we would expect

• A)out-group favouritism
• B)in-group favouritism
• C)stereotype threat
• D)in-group homogeneity
• E)polarization

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Definitions:

Stimulus

A stimulus is any event or situation that evokes a response from an organism.

Sensation

The process of detecting physical stimuli from the environment and converting them into neural signals that the brain can interpret.

Threshold

The point of intensity at which a stimulus becomes detectable to an individual or evokes a response.

Angler

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