One Explanation for Social Facilitation Focuses on the Role of Evaluation

question 194

Multiple Choice

One explanation for social facilitation focuses on the role of evaluation apprehension-the anxiety associated with being judged by others-in creating a state of arousal in people. What is the weakness of this explanation?

• A) Evaluation apprehension is probably not an important issue to cockroaches.
• B) People often misattribute the reasons for their arousal.
• C) Arousal can lead to the social inhibition effect.
• D) Cognitive appraisal processes precede physiological arousal.

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