PSYC 023 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cockroach, Psych, Social Loafing
21 Jun 2020
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Balance conflict by increasing benefits in other areas of the relationship. Engage in new, fun activities to combat boredom. Group processes: how the presence of other people affects us. Why does the presence of other people sometimes improve and sometimes hinder performance. Mere presence theory: the mere presence of other people increases our arousal. Improves our performance on easy tasks but interferes with our performance on difficult tasks. Cockroaches tested on their speed of escape from a bright light. He put them into glass tubes with a safety zone at one end. When he put other cockroaches around to observe the cockroaches got to safety faster than when they were alone. However, when the cockroach had to make a turn in order to get to safety, the presence of other cockroaches made the cockroach slower. On simple or well- learned tasks, the dominant response is the correct response.
