The __________ effect is improvement in individual performance when others are present.
A) social loafing
B) social facilitation
C) procedural facilitation
D) substantive facilitation
E) none of the above

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Social facilitation is the effect where an individual's performance is enhanced when others are present. It is believed that the presence of others tends to increase physiological arousal and the individual tends to perform better on well-learned or simple tasks, while their performance declines on complex or new tasks (known as the "co-action effect"). Social loafing is the opposite effect, where individual performance may decrease in the presence of others, whereas the other options are not related to this phenomenon.

The __________ Effect Is Improvement in Individual Performance When Others