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armygirl · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

Based on early research by Norman Triplett, we should expect that children who work on math problems alone will ____ than children who work on math problems side by side with their classmates.

a. work more slowly
b. work more quickly
c. second-guess themselves less
d. second-guess themselves more

Question 2

In one of the first social psychological experiments ever conducted, researcher Norman Triplett built a competition machine, in which children wind up a fishing reel. He found that the children were able to wind more quickly when ____.

a. they worked as a group side by side than when they worked alone
b. they worked alone than when they worked as a group side by side
c. they were explicitly asked to work as fast as possible
d. they were explicitly asked to take their time to get it right