The tendency for the presence of other people to increase performance on easy tasks and impair performance on difficult tasks is known as

a. social loafing.
b. social facilitation.
c. group polarization.
d. groupthink.


b

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Placing information in a relatively permanent "warehouse" is called:

A. encoding B. retrieval C. storage D. recording

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Which of the following does the trait approach add to our understanding of personality?

A. Personality remains the most unstable in later adult years. B. Personality is both stable and changeable. C. Gender makes little difference in the behavior of men and women across most life stages. D. It is difficult to find commonalities among traits in people of different cultures.

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Describe the PLISSIT model of sex therapy.

What will be an ideal response?

Psychology

Multiplying the estimated standard error of the mean by 6 yields an approximation

of a. the range of the entire distribution of individual scores b. the range of the entire sampling distribution of means c. the standard deviation of the sample d. the standard deviation of the population

Psychology