PSYC 1002 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Social Loafing, Deindividuation, Fishing Reel
6 Apr 2015
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Group: two or more people who interact and influence one another: groups perceive themselves as us . Co-actors: a group of people working simultaneously and individually on a non- competitive task. Triplett was the first to notice that cyclists times were faster when racing together than when racing alone against the clock. Triplett did a study where he got children to wind strong on a fishing reel as fast as possible and when they worked with co-actors they were faster. Social facilitation: this is when the dominant response is done in the presence of others, the original meaning was that people performed simple task better when others are present: social facilitation happens in animals also. Some studies show that on some tasks the presence of others decreases performance: presence of others diminishes efficiency at learning nonsense syllables, completing a maze and performing complex multiplication problems.
