PSY220H1 Lecture Notes - Social Loafing, Abstract Theory, Group Cohesiveness
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Other people (& their thoughts, feelings, attitudes, behaviours) Social psychology: a foothold in abstract theory & concrete practice. Not like chemistry or physics: we traffic in probabilities, likelihood, and correlations, rather than absolute laws. Despite the enormous variability of human behaviour, it is possible to extract some basic patterns of human behaviour. Sometimes two opposing clich s maybe equally intuitive (ex. scenario of the cigar factory social facilitation) Social facilitation: the strengthening of dominant responses owing to the presence of others. Triplett (1897): got 40 children to wind up fishing reels, sometimes alone, sometimes side-by-side with others. On a well-learned task, the dominant response is the correct response. On a poorly-learned task, the dominant response is likely to be incorrect. The effect of other people increases with their number. When sit together, friendly people are liked even more and unfriendly people are disliked even more)
