Comedy Routines That Are Mildly Amusing to People in an Uncrowded

question 764

Multiple Choice

Comedy routines that are mildly amusing to people in an uncrowded room seem funnier in a densely packed room.This is best explained in terms of

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

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Definitions:

Synaptic Interval

The gap between neurons across which neurotransmitters travel to transmit signals from one neuron to the next.

Synaptic Vesicles

Small organelles within neurons that store neurotransmitters, which are released into the synaptic cleft during neuronal communication.

Postsynaptic Cell

The neuron or cell that receives a signal (neurotransmitter) from another neuron at a synapse during the process of communication between neurons.

Neurotransmitters

Chemical messengers that transmit signals across a chemical synapse from one neuron (nerve cell) to another target neuron, muscle cell, or gland cell.