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torybrooks

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In general, how does the presence of an audience affect task performance?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

The term ________________ was coined to refer to people's general unwillingness to do much extra conscious thinking (i.e., people's mental laziness).
 
  Fill in the blank(s) with correct word



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Answer to Question 1

 Possible Response Points
 Social facilitation
 Leads to increased likelihood of the person's dominant response
 Also involves evaluation apprehension
 This pattern generally leads to
 Enhanced task performance for easy, well-learned tasks
 Attenuated task performance for difficult, less-well-learned tasks

Answer to Question 2

cognitive miser



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