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social facilitation

social facilitation noun: the improvement in an individual's performance on a task due to the presence of other people, especially when the task is simple, well-learned or familiar.

Noun

social facilitation (countable and uncountable, plural social facilitations)

  1. The improvement in an individual's performance on a task due to the presence of other people, especially when the task is simple, well-learned or familiar.

Forms of social facilitation

pluralsocial facilitations

Questions about social facilitation

What does social facilitation mean?
Social facilitation means the improvement in an individual's performance on a task due to the presence of other people, especially when the task is simple, well-learned or familiar.
What part of speech is social facilitation?
Social facilitation is a noun.
What is the plural of social facilitation?
The plural of social facilitation is social facilitations.

Words near social facilitation in the dictionary

  1. social envy
  2. social event
  3. social events
  4. social evil
  5. social evolutionism
  6. social facilitation
  7. social facilitations
  8. social fascism
  9. social fascist
  10. social fascists
  11. social function

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