Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 39: Cuban Missile Crisis, Henri Tajfel, Fishing Reel

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

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Social facilitation: reducing obedience, group decision making, prejudice. What is a group: 2 or more people. we feeling - a social identity: common goal. The individual in the group: group effects on individual, social facilitation - performance is enhanced in a group setting, triplett (1898, cyclists - ride faster if you are cycling in a group. Increased motivation or arousal: tendency to perform dominant response - whatever is the best thing to do in that situation, correct - performance of well-learned response or simple task: improved performance - social facilitation. Incorrect - acquisition of novel response or complex task: impaired performance - inhibition: predicts whether you will be better or worse with an audience depending on how simple the task is for you, ex. 1982 pool experiment: good/poor plays audience/no audience: good increase accuracy when someone"s watching, bad decrease accuracy when someone"s watching. So, which is it: can"t be strictly evaluation apprehension, rejecki et.