The concept of social facilitation is so named because of the idea that when the presence of others is arousing,

a. this arousal facilitates better task performance.
b. this arousal facilitates a well-learned, dominant response.
c. hard tasks are facilitated, but easy tasks are impeded.
d. deindividuation is facilitated.


Answer: B

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