PSY220H1 Lecture 1: Lecture 1
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No zajonc the mere presence of an audience is sufficient for while for cottrell and baron is it not. Iow people are not entirely lazy but also not entirely concerned with top performance (you want a fine in- between) If there are two experiments and one stays to continue and another says stop the obedience went down to zero. Loud as they could: told them if they were in teams or not, each subjects were told they are put in separate rooms to eliminate the less coordinated hypothesis . Replicated asche longest line exp: nobody broke bubble, somebody broke bubble, somebody had poor eye sight (reported right line) Children reeled better in the presence of others. Social facilitation increases productivity (or so he said) Cockroaches did better on easy maze when they could see audience and did worse on hard maze when they could see the audience.
