Distinguish between social facilitation and social loafing. When is each likely to occur?
What will be an ideal response?
* Social facilitation is an increase in performance that occurs when other people are present.
* Social loafing is the tendency to exert less effort when working on a group task that does not involve evaluation of individual participants.
* Social facilitation is likely to occur when efforts are being evaluated; social loafing occurs when a group works toward a common goal and individual efforts are not monitored or evaluated.
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