Social facilitation refers to an increase in dominant responses in the presence of others of the same species, leading to:

A. Improved performance on both well-learned/easy tasks and poorly learned/difficult tasks
B. Improved performance on well-learned/easy tasks and deterioration in performance on poorly learned/difficult tasks
C. Deterioration in performance on well-learned/easy tasks and improved performance on poorly learned/difficult tasks
D. Deterioration in performance on both well-learned/easy tasks and poorly learned/difficult tasks

Related Mcqs:

According to Zajonc’s social facilitation model, what factor facilitates the expression or inhibition of dominant responses?
A. The task performed
B. Prior experience
C. Presence of others
D. Group identity
Which of the following is the example of social facilitation?
A. Brandon agrees to his friend’s request to help her move
B. Andrew’s mom helps him build a birdfeeder
C. Lester becomes more nervous when speaking to a large audience
D. Sarah runs the mile much faster when she runs against someone
Presence of others may interfere with performance due to___________?
A. Social inhabitation
B. Social loafing
C. Distraction
D. All of these
Leyton suggested that members are symbolic of structural discontent – at different times in history a (social) class comes under treat from another (social) class under treat from another social class and feel dissatisfaction. What did he call this?
A. Depressive
B. Over- controlled repressors
C. Paranoid- aggression
D. Homicidal protest
The dominant approach in psychology today is ____________?
A. physiological psychology
B. cognitive psychology
C. ethnology
D. behaviorism
The ____________ is associated with the non-dominant hemisphere?
A. Broca’s area
B. recognition of faces
C. mathematics
D. logic
The dominant hemisphere of the brain ___________?
A. controls the non-dominant hand
B. adept at spatial tasks
C. works independently of non-dominant hemisphere
D. controls the expression and comprehension of language
Stimulation of the cheek will cause a newborn to begin making sucking responses. This illustrates the __________ reflex?
A. Perkinjie
B. Korsakoff
C. startle
D. rooting
The procedure in which only a portion of correct responses are reinforced is called ________________?
A. partial reinforcement
B. observational learning
C. extinction
D. None of these
Smokers and nonsmokers have been found to differ in a gene that influences responses to:
A. dopamine
B. serotonin
C. acetylcholine
D. norepinephrine