PSY 0105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Social Loafing, Social Facilitation, Partners Group
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Group: two or more people who interact with one another for longer than a few moments, they interact with one another and influence one another, who think of themselves as us". Group effects members, and members affect the group. Entitativity: how coherent, similar goals and ways, identify with unit. Ex: a family would be high in this. Social facilitation: presence of others improves performance(old idea)/ the strengthening of the dominant response (new idea) Tasks can be completed better/faster with the presence of another person. Just the mere presence of others can be enough. For difficult tasks, ability can be hindered by presence of others (because the dominant response is to struggle) For simple tasks, where the dominant response is easy or correct, performance is heightened when people are anxious (presence of others makes us anxious) For complex tasks, where the answer is not obvious or instinctual, performance suffers when people are anxious (presence of others makes us anxious)
