Which of the following statements is true?
a. Social facilitation occurs when an audience is present, but not in coaction situations.
b. Compresence is the personality characteristic that predicts how a person reacts when working in the presence of others.
c. People only experience social facilitation when the task is easy and the others who are present are focusing their attention on them.
d. Working in the presence of others can be distracting, but distraction does not inevitably undermine performance.
d. Working in the presence of others can be distracting, but distraction does not inevitably undermine performance.
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A. formal operational B. preoperational C. sensorimotor D. concrete operational E. motor operational
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A) one of three lines of letters as indicated by the sound of a tone immediately presented after the letters had disappeared. B) only one or two of the letters in the cued line. C) the first letter of each line only. D) the middle letter of each line.
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A) 31 B) 24 C) 10 D) 3
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A) adaptive responses to simple cognitive processes. B) refinement and reorganization of existing cognitive schemes. C) controlling information as it flows from the central executive to the short-term memory store. D) controlling attention, suppressing impulses in favor of adaptive responses, and flexibly redirecting thought and behavior.