In a classic study on social facilitation that focused on college students shooting pool at a student union. Good players who were confident in their pool playing _____ when being watched by others.
A. became very self-conscious and their pool-playing suffered significantly
B. improved their accuracy
C. showed no change in their pool shooting ability
D. became extreme showman and took risky shots, many of which did not pay off
Ans: B. Improved their accuracy
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b. Rats receiving shock learn to avoid all three equally. Those made nauseous avoid nothing. c. The nauseated rats avoid the lights and noises, and the shocked rats avoid the taste. d. The nauseated rats avoid the taste, and the shocked rats avoid the lights and noises.
The first person to conduct scientific studies of forgetting was
a. Sigmund Freud. b. Hermann Ebbinghaus. c. John Watson. d. George Miller.
All of the following are characteristics of androgen insensitivity syndrome (AIS) except:
a. Breast growth at puberty b. Descended testes c. Female external genitalia d. Male gonads
Research on terror management theory has revealed that mortality salience makes people
a. behave more altruistically, but only in service of their own worldview. b. think of themselves as distinct from animals. c. create romance around sex to make it seem less animalistic. d. All of these answers are correct.