Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Group Decision-Making, Social Facilitation, Fishing Reel

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Topics of the day: reducing obedience, social facilitation, group decision making. Who is more likely to be influenced: eron (1982, boys more than girls, unpopular kids, low achievers, physical aggression in the home (#1 predictor for aggression in life) Parental behaviour: horton & santogrossi (1978, children are less influenced if adult criticizes violent action or suggests non- violent alternative. Training: eron (1982, make it less real, 3 hour sessions, discriminate fantasy from reality (e. g. use of special effects, children less aggressive, even at 1 year follow up. What is a group: 2 or more people. Allport (1924: mere presence of other facilitates performance, but others report social inhibition, presence of others decreases performance. Drive theory- zajonc (1965: presence of other audience or co-actors increased motivation or arousal tendency to perform dominant response, dominant response, correct improved performance facilitation, performance of well-learned response or simple task.