Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Fishing Reel, Drive Theory

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Mike Atkinson

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Q: you observe kris punch laura in the nose and immediately you explain this a due to kris having a very aggressive personality you have just committed the. A: self-serving error, fundamental attribution error, consistency consensus error, self fulfilling prophecy, inconsistent info error. 2 or more people: interaction, communication, (cid:498)we(cid:499) feeling a social identity, common goal. Group effects on individual: social facilitation effect result of having someone competing against you to do something better, triplett (1898) When you had someone competing against you, you did: allport (1924) the task faster watching) Mere presence of others facilitates performance (just. They don"t have to be competing against you. Presence of others decreases performance: drive theory zajonc (1965) you)) The presence of others (audience or co-actors (doing task with. Results in increased motivation or arousal: results in tendency to perform dominance response. When is dominant response the right one: performance of well learned response or simple task.