According to ___, people perform better when others are watching because a failure or poor showing would threaten their social image, or “face.”
a. Zajonc’s drive theory
b. distraction/conflict theory
c. social orientation theory
d. the mere-effort model
e. a self-presentation analysis
e. a self-presentation analysis
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When Stoner (1961) compared the average decision of a group's individual members against their group decision generated through group discussion, he found that
a. group members ignored the discussion and maintained their original decision. b. individuals arrived at riskier decisions than groups. c. groups arrived at riskier decisions than individuals. d. the longer the discussion continued, the riskier the group's decisions.
The experience of first ejaculation is referred to as ____
a. breast buds c. puberty b. adolescence d. semenarche
Which period of prenatal development is considered the critical period and also a time in which teratogens can have a profound effect that endure into adulthood?
a. conception b. germinal period c. embryonic period d. fetal period
The text describes orphanages in Romania in which all of the infants had been seriously deprived. The children were later adopted and recovered dramatically in physical development. It was found that the recovery in cognitive development ____
a. recovered rapidly for all children b. was dependent on the age in which the children were adopted c. did not occur for any of the children d. not only recovered quickly, but the children outperformed other children very rapidly