PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Group Decision-Making, Murder Of Kitty Genovese, Group Polarization
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Module: our thoughts and behaviours are influenced by the people around us. Social psychology is not as intuitive as it seems. Norman triplett: co-actor, another individual performing the same task, audience, a group of people watching an induvial perform a task. Social facilitation: the increased performance that occurs in the presence of co-actors or an audience, the presence of others can sometimes hinder, rather than help, a performance, for example; problem solving. Zajonc"s research offered a solution to the problem of social facilitation: the presence of other people increase arousal to improve performance on well-practiced tasks, the presence of others decreases the performance on complex tasks. Zajonc"s resolution: group presence hinders complex tasks but facilitates well-practised ones. They said they were running low on fuel. But this was a new employee that came in and did(cid:374)"t k(cid:374)o(cid:449) they (cid:449)ere lo(cid:449) o(cid:374) fuel.
