Triplett (1898) conducted one of social psychology's first laboratory experiments by asking children to wind string on a fishing reel. The results of the study indicated that there was a positive relationship between the speed at which the children wound the reel and the presence of other children. Later studies found the same pattern and dubbed it:
A. the social facilitation effect.
B. deindividuation.
C. the groupthink effect.
D. social loafing.
Answer: A
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