PSYCH 2C03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Social Facilitation, Social Loafing, Butter Knife
11 Feb 2019
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Social facilitation: process where performance is changed when working alone in a social situation, 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, the more people the less each person works. Social facilitation: a brief history: triplett (1898, cycling: individual times slower than group times, experiment: same thing with kids reeling in fishing lines. In groups vs. alone: know that the fastest time gets a reward, fastest average time always in group situation, but problem: sometimes we do worse in groups then alone, social psychology drops social facilitation. Zajonc"s generalized drive hypothesis: arousal, dominant response, and performance: get the graph from the slides!, well supported. 1969 social facilitation in cockroaches: get picture from slides, better at easy maze when audience boxes are filled, worse when empty, worse at hard maze when audience boxes are filled, better when empty.
