Nolan Is Working with Two Other Students on a Class

question 92

Multiple Choice

Nolan is working with two other students on a class project.He is aware that the class is important to the others because it is a pre-med requirement;for his major,the class is unimportant.So,Nolan figures that they can do most of the work and he will do only what he has to.Nolan is demonstrating

• A) social facilitation.
• B) social loafing.
• C) deindividuation.
• D) group polarization

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Definitions:

Alternative Hypothesis

A hypothesis that proposes a statistical relationship between variables, opposite to the null hypothesis suggesting no relationship.

Main Effect

The direct impact of an independent variable on a dependent variable in an experimental design.

Null Hypothesis

A default hypothesis that there is no effect or no difference, and any observed difference is due to sampling or experimental error.

Interaction Effect

A phenomenon in which the effect of one independent variable on the dependent variable varies depending on the level of another independent variable.