PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13.1: Stanford Prison Experiment, Pluralistic Ignorance, Social Loafing
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Environment: this insight challenged the freudian theories of the early 20th century, which explained a person"s behaviour as being guided by unconscious forces that were rooted in that person"s distant personal past. Feeling like others are not trying very hard: people will loaf if they feel others are loafing; overcome this by providing feedback about the progress of the group members on their individual tasks. Social facilitation: occurs when one"s performance is affected by the presence of others: for example, in probably the first social psychology experiment ever published, norman. Triplett found that cyclists ride faster when racing against each other than when trying to beat the clock. In short, it often fails: when group members are more concerned with avoiding disagreements than with generating ideas, three main problems occur. People tend to be less likely to conform. People tend to be more likely to conform when when Only one other person is in the vicinity.
