PSYC 3402 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Reel Fishing, Social Loafing, Groupthink
24 May 2016
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Collective processes: the presence of others a. Research involving cyclists: presence of a rider increases competitive instinct, which increased nervous energy and ultimately enhanced performance. Children, winding fishing reel: children reel fishing line side by side, enhanced performance. Side-by-side and performing in front of an audience: sometime enhanced performance and sometimes performance was inhibited; did not agree with triplett"s results b. iii. 2. Robert zaionc"s solution: the presence of others increases arousal, which affects performance in different ways depending on the specific task. First: the presence of others creates and increases in nonspecific drive b. iii. 2. b. Second: increased drive enhances an individual"s tendency to perform the dominant response , or the reaction elicited most quickly and easily by a given stimulus b. iii. 2. c. Third: the quality of a person"s performance will vary according to the task at hand: b. iii. 2. c. i. b. iii. 2. c. ii. b. iii. 2. d. Easy: simple and/or well learned; dominant response is usually correct. Difficult: complex and/or unfamiliar; dominant response is usually incorrect.
