Psychology 2070A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Social Loafing, Deindividuation, Group Cohesiveness

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2070A/B
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People perform better in the presence of other people on simple tasks and worse in complex tasks. Dominant responses: they are the responses that are most likely to occur when the person is alone. Because the presence of an audience causes physiological arousal which restricts the range of attention. In a simple task it means the focus on a few cues blocks out distractions, but in a complex task it makes it hard for the person to tend to all the cues necessary for good performance. Study: participants had to give correct response without knowing the critical number of: performed better in front of people if they practised before (easy) then if they didn"t (didn"t know the critical number so it was hard) Social loafing: goofing off when others can do the work. Social loafing: putting in less effort when working in a group where individual contributions are unidentifiable (i. e. project where everyone gets the same grade)