PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Murder Of Kitty Genovese, Albert Bandura, Social Learning Theory
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Racers raced faster against others oppose to self (ex: with against time) (even for. Social facilitation: increase in performance with others watching (audience has no interests. Exceptions: learning non-sense syllables, difficult maze, complex math presence of others hindering performance. Enhanced performance: simple task, known expert task (rehearsed). Ex: performing on stage (well rehearsed), writing exam confident about. Positive presence of others makes complex task feel simple. You learn appropriate behaviours by modeling and imitating the behaviour of others. Understand how complex cognitive skill is learned through clear reinforcement. Don"t always need reinforcement to develop (= diff from basic conditioning) Children who viewed aggressive behavior towards doll (or real person) = more likely to do. Implications: people don"t need to be reinforced to preform a task which has been seen (ex violent video games) After multiple days people will gradually converge their answers to meet others (despite their starting point) adjusting answers. More uncertain about truth more likely to conform.
