According to Norman Triplett's experiment on social facilitation, if you are riding a bicycle and another rider pulls up beside you, you will be more likely to
a. speed up.
b. slow down.
c. ignore the other rider.
d. speak and try to maintain his or her pace.
ANSWER: a
You might also like to view...
The general adaptation syndrome, discussed in the text, is a model for understanding ____
a. how people react to immediate dangers or threats b. how people respond to stressors c. how people respond to lifestyle changes d. how people cope with long-term illness or disease
The relationship between intelligence test scores and creativity is ___________
a. major c. significant b. moderate d. insignificant
A discriminative stimulus signals when a particular response is likely to be followed by a certain type of consequence
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
Which of the following is the correct order of Piaget's stages of cognitive development?
a) preoperational; concrete operations; sensorimotor; formal operations b) concrete operations; sensorimotor; preoperational; formal operations c) sensorimotor; preoperational; concrete operations; formal operations d) preoperational; sensorimotor; concrete operations; formal operations