PSY220H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Social Inhibition, Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster, Group Decision-Making
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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. > 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: Social inhibition: arousal inhibits (hinders) the performance of less accessible, non-dominant behaviours: According to zajonc (1965), all creatures have an innate tendency to be aroused by members of their species. Roaches , showed the social inhibtion effect.
