The Local Basketball Team Consistently Performs Better in Front of the Home

question 233

Multiple Choice

The local basketball team consistently performs better in front of the home crowd on their home court. This BEST illustrates:

• A)social facilitation.
• B)risky shift.
• C)deindividuation.
• D)the bystander effect.

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Mean

The average of a set of values, calculated by summing all the values and dividing by the number of values.

Discrete Random Variable

A random variable that has countable outcomes, such as the number of heads in a series of coin flips.

Poisson Distribution

A probability distribution that expresses the probability of a given number of events occurring in a fixed interval of time or space when these events occur with a known constant rate and independently of the time since the last event.

Discrete Random Variable

A type of random variable that can take on a countable number of distinct values.