PSYCH253 Lecture Notes - Group Polarization, Conflict Theories, Social Loafing
16 Apr 2013
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Tendency to do better in easy tasks than hard tasks when in front of an audience when individual performance can be evaluated. When in front of others it boosts physiological arousal. This arousal enhances dominant response: simple task perform well, difficult task- perform poorly. Presence of others arousal dominant response easy = better . Real world example: wedding in right size church, high def stanford. Iv: player"s skill level (1/2 above, below) Above average when unobserved did better than below average. When observed, below average did worse and above average did better. Real world: learning in groups, large groups = daunting. Distraction- conflict theory: people are distracting; distraction causes arousal, others increase distraction. Evaluation apprehension theory: performance changes only if others can evaluate us, word recognition study. With 2 other ps (possible evaluation): better performance. With 2 blindfolded ps (no evaluation): same as baseline.
