PSY220H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Cockroach, Cuban Missile Crisis, Hazel Rose Markus
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Groups: the actions of one man burning himself to protest the way he was treated by the government in tunisia led to countless people being angered by the government. Inspiration from this success led to protests in cairo, then libya. All were aided by social media and all started with the actions of one person: only through collective action among individuals was all this possible. He invited 40 children to a lab and asked them to turn a fishing reel as fast as they could. In 3 trials they did this alone, and in another 3 they did it alongside another child. Found that they tended to turn the wheel faster in the presence of other people. 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: following experiments were conducted.
