PSYC 2084 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Murder Of Kitty Genovese, Social Loafing, Opportunity Cost
13 Nov 2016
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Yerkes-dodson law: the inverted u shaped relationship between stress and performance, we increase performance when under a tolerable level of stress, once we pass the threshold, performance declines greatly. If you have a talent at an activity, you will do better with a crowd. If you are performing an activity where you have little/no talent, you will do even worse than normal with a crowd. Social loafing (max ringelman: we put in less effort in an activity when in a group, expecting others to pick up the slack. Priso(cid:374)er"s dile(cid:373)(cid:373)a: game where the goal is to minimize your time spent in jail. You"re separated fro(cid:373) your ally a(cid:374)d (cid:272)a(cid:374) either (cid:272)o(cid:374)fess that the part(cid:374)er is guilty or stay silent. Each option presents you with differing jail time depending on the partner response: those with type a personalities are more likely to nark on their partner due to their competitiveness.
