PSYC 360 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Social Loafing, Psych
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Women"s roles have changed, the way women are depicted in ads does not correspond to the changes in women"s roles today, women can join the work force and vote etc. Women"s ratings of their own assertiveness have mirrored societal trends, as women"s roles in the united states have changed from independent to dependent, ratings of assertiveness dropped. As women"s roles became more independent ratings of assertiveness increased. Social facilitation the tendency for people to do better on simple tasks, and worse on complex tasks, when they are in the presence of others and their individual performance can be evaluated. Cockroaches and facilitation cockroaches were put in a simple maze and had to go from the starting point down the runway to the darkened box. They had other cockroaches watch, and they performed the feat faster when other roaches were watching than when they were alone. In the complex maze, the cockroaches had a more difficult task.
