PSYCH 2C03 Lecture 11: Psych 2C03 Lecture 11 Groups
19 Mar 2016
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Social facilitation: happens when people are working alone, but in the presence of an audience. Social loa ng: happens when people are working together towards some goal. Triplett (1898) : cycling - individual times slower than group time. Expt: same thing with kids reeling in shing lines. He told all the kids whoever was fastest would get a prize, but some were in the presence of a group. Found that the fastest times occurred in a group. But: sometimes we do worse in groups than alone. Social psychology almost dropped the idea of social facilitation until . Reformulation in terms of facilitation of one"s dominant response: when someone would normally do well at a task, then the presence of others improves their performance. But performance gets worse when it"s not something they are typically good at. Arousal due to mere presence of others affects performance. Yerkes-dodson law: medium arousal is key, too much or too little is bad.
