PSYC1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: External Validity, Social Facilitation

• School: University of Sydney
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC1001
• Professor: Caleb Owens

Document Summary

Social psychology examines how the thoughts, feelings and behaviours of individuals are influenced by the actual or implied presence of others. Social psychology uses descriptive or experimental methods to accomplish this aim. The process whereby people directly or indirectly influence the thoughts, feelings and actions of others. Social influence is a pervasive and important part of everyday life. In a group and all were doing well. Co-action effects: observe behaviour when individuals are all simultaneously engaged in the same activity in full view of each other. Audience effects: observation of behaviour when it occurs in the presence of passive spectators: social facilitation in the animal kingdom. Bayer (1929) looked at the eating behaviour of chickens: the apparently full chicken then ate 2/3 again as much grain as it had already eaten, presence of another chicken increased the eating behaviour. : excavates 728mg: day 4: ant digs alone again: excavates 182mg (fatigued)