An increase in group performance such that the group outperforms the individuals who comprise the group is called
a. process loss.
b. process gain.
c. escalation.
d. polarization.
Question 2
Which statement regarding the relationship between online communication and contemporary social psychology research is most accurate?
a. Online communication facilitates collaboration among researchers, but is also, in and of itself, a provocativetopic for empirical inquiry.
b. Online communication has increased the number of different variables that can be studied at one time, but atthe same time, has led to an unfortunate increase in the cost of running psychological studies.
c. Online communication allows researchers to combat the artificiality of laboratory experiments, and increasesthe demographic diversity of the participant sample used in most studies.
d. Online communication is still years away from having a significant impact on the nature and topics of researchin social psychology.
Some red squirrels adopt the offspring of related individuals, a likely example of kin selection pro
Dominance relationships among individuals play an important role in many primate societies.
The recent mass upheavals in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, and Syria gave political scientists a cha
Adolescents are preoccupied with finding their place in the social group as well as society.
Performance of a delayed nonmatching-to-sample trial.
Group of Geese