Presence of others may interfere with performance due to___________?
Correct answer: D. All of these
- A. Social inhabitation
- B. Social loafing
- C. Distraction
- D. All of these
Explanation
Other people can impair performance through distraction, social inhibition on difficult tasks, or reduced individual effort in groups, called social loafing. Thus all the listed mechanisms can interfere, although “social inhabitation” is presumably a misspelling of social inhibition.
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