Zusammenfassung der Ressource
interpersonal process 1
- Social Facilitation
- Triplett's experiment
- children wound fishing reels
- children performed competitively faster than they performed alone
- types of social facilitation
- co-action effects
- audience effects
- social inhibition
- if the task/behaviour is easy or well-learned-----arousal helps performance
- if the task/behaviour is hard or not well-learned-----arousal hinders performance
- theories of social facilitation
- mere presence theory
- arousal facilitated the performance of the dominant response
- arousal impaired the performance of the non-dominant response
- distraction-conflict theory
- the presence of others influences our performance because people are cognitively distracting
- the presence of others produces a conflict between paying attention to the task and paying attention to the audiences
- this conflict leads to increased arousal, which either facilitates or inhibits our performances.
- evaluation-apprehension theory
- proposed that we are aware of social approval and disapproval from being evaluated by others
- we are apprehensive about beingevaluated by otehrs
- definition 1 improved performance in
the mere presence of others on easy
or well-learned tasks 2 decreased
performance in the mere presence of
others on difficult or poorly-learned
tasks(social inhibition)
- Social Loafing
- Definition The reduction in individual
motivation and effort that occurs
when individuals work collectively
compared to when they work alone
or co-actively
- reasons for social loafing
- factors that influence Social loafing