PS 261 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Deindividuation, Internet2, Social Loafing

• School: Quinnipiac University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PS 261
• Professor: Levine

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Presence of others heightened arousal enhanced tendency to perform dominant responses. Why do we get nervous? if you"re good at so(cid:373)ethi(cid:374)g, the presence of others will make it even better if you"re (cid:374)ot good at so(cid:373)ethi(cid:374)g, the prese(cid:374)(cid:272)e of others (cid:449)ill (cid:373)ake it e(cid:448)e(cid:374) (cid:449)orse. Evaluation apprehension theory: people judge us. Distraction conflict theory: person performing a task in the presence of others, there is a conflict. To pay attention to the audience, or to the task at hand: this conflict causes us to get aroused, social facilitation effect occurs. Mere presence: just the presence of others puts off hormones. A group of five has less ideas than five students working alone. You can forget what you wanted to say. People put less effort in in a group- social loafing. When you want to speak, you may be rehearsing it in your head and you miss what someone else has said.