PSY-P 304 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Dynamometer, Gustave Le Bon, Group Cohesiveness
9 Aug 2016
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5-25 group processes: norman triplett father of social psychology a. In 1890 he published the first paper of social psych here at iu while working on his. Genetically as in accumulated knowledge over generations a. ii. In the presence of conspecifics there is an expectation of a reward or punishment: that resulting arousal enhances dominant responses b. i. Dominant behaviors are those that are very well learned or those that we are very good at: arousal inhibits non-dominant responses c. i. Behaviors that we are not very good at or are not very well learned. 5. (michaels, et al, 1982: dominant players. 36% of their shots w/o the presence of an audience: 80% of their shots. 25% of their shots w/ presence of an audience: evaluation apprehension theory (cottrell, 1968) a. Its our concern for how others will evaluate/are evaluating us that causes us to become physiologically aroused a. i.
