PSYC 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Social Loafing, Deindividuation, Group Polarization
30 Oct 2018
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A group is: two or more people (absolute minimum, interact with each other (does not have to be face-to-face, influence one another, shared goals, outcomes are interdependent (efforts do not have to be equal/equally important) Define interdependent: success and failure depends on effort of others in group. Define social facilitation and give some examples: the strengthening of likely responses to a particular situation in the presence of others. Ex: an nba player shoots better during games than practicing by himself, however the likely response is not always helpful/positive (most of us would probably shoot worse) Having others around us arouses us (makes us alert, mentally-aware, and physically-aware of ourselves and our surroundings) Arousal enhances our dominant responses (we are likely to do whatever our default is) Evaluation apprehension: we are concerned about how others are judging our actions. We are less affected by others when we know we are not being evaluated (when present observers are blindfolded)
