PSYCH 160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Social Facilitation, Deindividuation
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Social groups: 2+ people who interact and who are interdependent. Nonsocial groups (e. g. collectives): 2+ people in the same place at the same time but who don"t interact. How does the presence of others a ect performance . Cyclers were faster when competing against others vs. the clock. Children wound shing reals faster w others vs. alone. Mere presence of others individual e orts can be evaluated arousal . Stronger dominant response correct dr (simple task) enhanced performance. Incorrect dr (di cult task) impaired performance. Presence of others enhances performance on simple tasks and impairs performance on di cult tasks. Evaluation apprehension: presence of others social facilitation e ects when others are potential evaluators. Distraction-con ict: presence of others social facilitations e ects when other distract + create attentional con ict. 1880s: max ringelmann found that individual e orts decline on easy, collective tasks e. g. pushing on a cart or pulling on a rope.
