One effective way to reduce social loafing is to

A) tell group members that their personal effort won't have a large impact on group performance.
B) give the task special meaning.
C) keep the task as simple as possible.
D) recruit group members who are individualistic.

Answer: B

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a. Forming and using long-term memories is an active, creative, highly personal process with our memories being shaped by emotions, judgments, and quirks of personality. b. False memories due to source confusion occur because new information "overwrites" existing memories. c. Because people cannot remember the source of a memory, it can lead witnesses to "remember" a face that they actually saw somewhere other than the crime scene. d. False long-term memories are a common problem in police work.

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