You have noticed that when you are at the gym,your exercise routine is not affected by how may other people are there.However,it is affected when other people are watching you exercise.This pattern in your behavior is what social psychologists call

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Evaluation apprehension refers to the idea that people's performance can be affected by the presence of others when they believe they are being evaluated or judged. The fact that your exercise routine is affected when others are watching suggests that you are concerned about their evaluation of your performance, which is consistent with evaluation apprehension. Social facilitation refers to the tendency for people to perform better on simple tasks when others are present, while social loafing refers to the tendency for people to exert less effort on group tasks than individual tasks. Mere presence refers to the presence of others without any explicit evaluation or expectation of performance, and does not necessarily affect behavior.

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