Kinesiology 1070A/B Lecture 2: Le(Sep16)Social Facilitation&Home Advantage Lec2 Notes
5 Oct 2015
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Historical perspective (slide 2: earliest reported study of the social facilitation phenomenon was that of triplett (1987) - the effect of coaction on. Social facilitation (lecture 2 notes) bicycling performance: un-paced cyclist, paced cyclist, cyclist racing against another competitor, rst study was created for sport psychology (1897) - refer to ppt, performance increased when racing against another competitor (#3) Social facilitation terminology (slide 3: audience, passive onlookers- non interactive, interactive - interactive (verbal/emotional, being received, co-actors - two or more individuals performing side by side but independently. Equivalence of the co-action and audience effects (slide 5: in zajonc"s (1965) original model the effect resulting from the presence of co-actors and an audience was assumed, coaction and audience effect are equivalent. Criticism of zajonc"s model (slide 6: cottrell"s (1972) notion of evaluation apprehension challenges zajonc"s position that the mere presence of others is enough to cause a social facilitation effect. No to be equivalent arousal if the audience cannot critically evaluate.
