PSY B110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Social Loafing, Social Facilitation, Social Cognition

• School: IUPUI
• Department: PSY-B - Psychology
• Course: PSY B110
• Professor: Dr Doug Lanning

Document Summary

Essentially is the study of how people think, feel and behave in response to other people: social influence. How the social setting influences the above: social cognition. How to make sense of their own and others behavior: social relations. Social influence: people do influence you, even if you do not believe so, collective. 3 or more people engages in common activities but have very little direct interaction. Group: 3 or more interacting people that share common goals. Social facilitation: how the presence of others increases our performance. Social inhibition: how the presence of others decrease or inhibit our performance. Think about sporting events, music concerts, and many other things. Social loafing: the tendency to expend less effort on collective tasks versus when they are alone. Group projects are fraught with social loafing. Think about when you have taken part in a group project, does everyone do the.