Mike is a great football player. Last Saturday, his new girlfriend
attended the game to watch him play, and Mike played even better than usual. Mike's enhanced performance demonstrates the phenomenon known as
A) social influence.
B) social facilitation.
C) social conformity.
D) the bystander effect.
Answer: B
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a. Psychological autopsy b. Terminal probe c. Anomic assessment d. Postmortem analysis
The Milgram study involved ____
a. injecting unsuspecting patients with live cancer cells b. failing to provide treatment for men with syphilis c. asking participants to administer what appeared to be severe shocks to other people d. exposing participants to extremes of freezing temperature
Research has shown that in educational environments,
a. students, but not teachers, engage in self-serving biases. b. teachers, but not students, engage in self-serving biases. c. students attribute high grades to the hard work of the teachers and low grades to their own lack of effort. d. professors take credit for student success but not student failure.
George is suffering from an obsessive-compulsive disorder. If he tries to stop his compulsive behaviors, he is likely to experience ______
a) severe depression b) severe anxiety c) amnesia d) illness anxiety disorder