PSYB10H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Hazel Rose Markus, Social Loafing, Cockroach
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Humans and all large primates live in groups. Group: a collection of individuals who have relations to one another that make them interdependent to some significant degree. Norman triplett: credited with being first person to experimentally examine effect of other people"s presence on human performance. Faster time recorded when cyclists competed directly against one another on the same track at the same time. Presence of others tended to facilitate human performance. Social facilitation: initially a term for enhanced performance in the presence of others; now a broader term for the effect-positive or negative-of the presence of others on performance. Same effect present when others present weren"t doing the same task, but were present as an observer. Same effect observed in a vast number of animal species. Zajonc"s theory: robert zajonc: presence of others tends to facilitate performance on simple well- learned tasks but hinders performance on difficult ones, three components. Mere presence of others makes a person aroused.
