Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 36: Group Decision-Making, Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster, Adult Development

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

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Boys more than girls, unpopular children, low achievers, physical aggression in home. Children are less influenced if adult criticise violent actions. 3 hour session, to discriminate fantasy from real life (use of special effect) The effect can fall away after 15 mins. : 2 or more people, people tend to stay in 2-3 sizes. Individual in the group: group effects on individual. Triplett (1898): he is cyclists, fishing reel task having someone to ride with you, you will ride faster. Allport (1924): mere presence of others facilitates performance. But others report social inhibition presence of others decreases performance. Presence of others (audience or co-actors) increase motivation or arousal tendency to. If this is unfamiliar (novel response or complex task) your dominant response is incorrect impaired performance inhibition. If this is well-learned, simple task your dominant response is correct improved performance facilitation. Good players be better and poor players get worse with audience.