01:830:321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Social Loafing, Deindividuation, Social Facilitation

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:321
• Professor: Professor Stephen Killianski

Document Summary

Influential aspects of groups: norms apply to all members ie: loyalty in a frat, roles apply to a person in a particular position ie: president of a frat, group cohesiveness. Skilled shooters make 70% of shots when alone. Unskilled shooters make 35% of shots when alone. Unskilled do worse with an audience. If your dominant response is to make a shot you are more likely to make a shot in front of others. If you dominant response is to miss a shot you are more likely to miss a shot in front of others. Cockroach tasks: run in straight line (dominant response, run in complex maze (not dominant, dominant response cockroaches went faster when other cockroaches were present, not dominant response cockroaches did worse when others were present. Sympathetic nervous system arousal only good for tasks that require energy high arousal can impair intellectual performance. Social loafing: groups outperform individuals: the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.