PSY220H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Top Priority, Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster, Resource Depletion
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Lecture 8 running on a treadmill alone v. s running on one theres people around. Presence of other people, we will run longer, push ourself harder. perform better ( of course there"s a subjective difference. other people help you perform better. Answering jerprody questions , by yourself at home you perfrom well but at the studio and theres cameras , you will perfrom worse when theres other people around. now your performance sucks. Why does the presence of others sometimes help and sometimes hinder performance. The presence of others increases arousal: > when there is other people there, it automatcially increases our arousal and depedning on the situation ( zions ) it can be good or bad. Social facilitation: arousal facilitates (helps) the performance of accessible, dominant behaviors: Simple, well learned, and/or highly practiced behaviours. Social inhibition: arousal inhibits (hinders) the performance of less accessible, non-dominant behaviours: