PSYCH 2C03 Study Guide - Final Guide: Group Cohesiveness, Usal, Butter Knife
13 Jun 2016
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Group behaviour social faciliatation the tendency for ppl to do better on simple tasks, but worse on complex tasks, when they are in the presence of others and their individual performance can be evaluated - Triplett - cycling: indi. times slower than group times. Expt: same thing w. kids reeling in shing lines. But, sometimes we do worse in groups than alone. Zajonc - dominant responses the thing that you are likely to do (if you suck, you will suck worse - if you"re good, you"ll be better) arousal due to mere presence of others a ects performance. Yerkes-dodson law arousal and its a ect on performance low arousal = bad performance high arousal = bad performance medium arousal = best performance (not too high, or too low) Thinks that it is di . for di . tasks. New/di cult tasks - better perfomance at lower arousal level easy/simple/rehearsed tasks - better performance at high arousal (wont get bored)
