People Tend to Reduce Effort When Working in a Group

question 23

Multiple Choice

People tend to reduce effort when working in a group as opposed to when working alone. This phenomenon is known as ____.

• A)social facilitation
• B)evaluation apprehension
• C)the bad apple effect
• D)social loafing

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Definitions:

T Test

A statistical test used to compare the means of two groups or the mean of one group with a known value, under the assumption of normally distributed data.

T Procedure

A statistical method used to test the mean of a population, especially useful when dealing with small sample sizes and unknown population standard deviations.

Outliers

Data points that significantly deviate from the other observations in a dataset, potentially indicating measurement error or an unusual event.

Statistical Procedure

A standard process or series of operations in statistics used for collecting, organizing, summarizing, and analyzing data to draw conclusions or make predictions.