PSY 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Social Inhibition, Social Facilitation, Group Cohesiveness
16 Dec 2017
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A collection of three or more people who interact with one another and are interdependent, in the sense that their needs and goals cause them to rely on one another. Social facilitation: when people do better on a task in the presence of others than when they"re alone. Personal goal in the presence of others. Presence of others can cause you to perform better. High arousal enhances whatever a person"s dominant tendency is on a particular tasks: on simple or well learned tasks the dominant response is the correct one. Mere presence ( energizing arousal; behavioural: mere presence helps create physiological arousal, energizing arousal: you become more vigilant, it might mean something. Evaluation apprehension (cognitive appraisal: want to look good in front go others, can do better, social facilitation is also caused by people"s concern about being evaluated by this audience.
