A Detriment in Performance When an Audience Is Present Is

question 22

Multiple Choice

A detriment in performance when an audience is present is known as ______.

• A) an audience effect
• B) social facilitation
• C) social inhibition
• D) task complexity

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A tool for assessing the scope of variation or dispersion among a series of figures.

Exponentially Distributed

Describes the time between events in a process in which events occur continuously and independently at a constant average rate.

Parameter λ

A symbol often used to denote a specific parameter in mathematical or statistical expressions, such as the rate parameter in an exponential distribution.

Variance

A measure of the dispersion or spread of a set of data points around their mean, indicating how much the data points differ from the mean.