Author Question: During his statistics class this morning, Stuart was completely confused. He considered asking ... (Read 36 times)

Tirant22 · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

During his statistics class this morning, Stuart was completely confused. He considered asking questions during the lecture, but because nobody else asked questions, he did not want to raise his hand and make a fool of himself in front of everyone. Stuart's failure to ask questions most likely stems from

a. diffusion of responsibility.
b. stimulus overload.
c. pluralistic ignorance.
d. audience inhibition.

Question 2

Research on positive illusions shows that they

a. are adaptive in nearly every sense.
b. are maladaptive in nearly every sense.
c. can be adaptive in some ways, but costly in others.
d. are quite rare, but adaptive when they do occur.