PSYC 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Social Loafing, Deindividuation, Social Facilitation
29 Dec 2017
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Group: a collection of individuals who have relations to one another that make them interdependent to some significant degree. Social facilitation: the effect of the presence of others on performance. Enhanced performance in the presence of others when performing a simple or well- learned task. Impaired performance in the presence of others when performing a difficult or novel task. If others can evaluate us, we have increased arousal. We don"t want to look bad, so we get amped up/nervous. Simply having others around makes us very alert/vigilant. Other agents can be unpredictable; we need to be able to act fast. Awareness of another person"s presence creates a conflict between attending to the person and the task. If the task is well-learned, decreased attention to the task leads to good dominant response. But if the task is novel or difficult, decreased attention leads to poor dominant response.
