You are a very good school teacher, who is confident in your teaching ability. One day, you are instructing your class when you spy the principal standing outside the door watching you. According to social facilitation theory, you are likely to
a. improve your teaching performance.
b. decrease in your teaching performance.
c. not change your teaching performance.
d. become indigent that the principal would just stand silently outside the door rather than coming in to the classroom and making his or her presence known.
A
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