PSY220H1 Final: All Lecture Class Notes
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May 16-18 lecture: social facilitation, groups, conformity, obedience, pluralistic. Social psychology the scientific study of the reciprocal influence of the individual and his/her social environment. Beliefs, feelings, attitudes, emotions > behaviour > other ppl. Triplett (1897) got 40 children to wing up fishing reels, sometimes alone, sometimes w/ others (which group reeled faster?) Zajonc the presence of others increases arousal (physiologically measurable) > arousal energizes you/facilitates the dominant response (the behaviour that comes most quickly/easily given a particular stimulus). Arousal activates the thoughts/motor responses that are the most practiced. on a well learned task, the dominant response is the correct response. On a poorly learned task, the dominant response is most likely to be incorrect. Therefore, an audienc should improve your performance on tasks that are easy for you and hamper your performance on asks that are more difficult.
