PSYCH 2C03 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Social Loafing, Cockroach, Pulling Power
27 Jan 2016
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When people get into groups what are the results. Social facilitation: happens when people are working alone in the presence of an audience. Performance is enhanced on simple, well learned tasks, and diminished on novel, complex tasks. Social loafing happens when people are working together towards some goal. Cycling: individual times slower than group times - co-action in the group condition. Social situation - go faster with other people than alone. Expt. same thing with kids reeling in fishing lines. When reeling in a group they did it faster even though they knew that the fastest time got a prize - all motivated to do their best. Thought it might have been pure competition. But: problem - sometimes we do worse in groups than alone (rats learning maze, human learning nonsense syllables) Dropped social facilitation theory for about 30 years. Problem he thought was that there was disparate results no one can explain.
