Compared to earlier findings on social facilitation, what do recent findings show about what happens to people's performance in the presence of others?
a) Performance improves in people with high achievement motivation.
b) Performance improves on easy tasks but suffers on difficult tasks.
c) Performance decreases on both easy and difficult tasks when being observed by someone of the opposite
sex.
d) Performance on interesting tasks increases, but performance on boring tasks decreases.
b
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One finding from the National Study of Daily Experiences (NSDE) was that:
a. events that happened at school or home were rated as the most stressful. b. people tend to perceive their own stressful events as more severe than they are perceived by a noninvolved rater. c. most people did not report any stressors on the days studied, perhaps caused by social desirability of talking directly to the interviewer. d. the least common stressors were interpersonal tensions.
The drug reserpine
a. was used medically to treat high blood pressure. b. is used to treat myasthenia gravis. c. blocks the storage of monoamines in vesicles. d. can produce Parkinson's disease in some persons. e. interferes with the synthesis of dopamine.