Triplett (1898)conducted one of social psychology's first laboratory experiments by asking children to wind string on a fishing reel.The results of the study indicated that there was a positive relationship between the speed at which the children wound the reel and the presence of other children.Later studies found the same pattern and dubbed it:

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The pattern described in the question is known as social facilitation, which refers to the tendency for people to perform better on simple tasks and worse on complex tasks in the presence of others. This effect has been replicated in numerous studies since Triplett's initial research. The other answer choices (groupthink, social loafing, and deindividuation) refer to different phenomena in social psychology and do not fit the pattern described in the question.

Triplett (1898)conducted One of Social Psychology's First Laboratory Experiments by Asking