Social facilitation refers to the tendency of people to perform on simple, well learned tasks and social inhibition refers to the tendency to perform on novel or complex tasks when others are present.

Aguiding principle of the national response framework is that: a. response partners use nonstandard structures to allow for flexible and scalable responses. b. unity of effort results when responding agencies are willing to relinquish their authorities. c. effective partnership relies on engaging all elements of the whole community. d. readiness to act encourages response partners to self-dispatch to an incident scene.