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Social Facilitation
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- 1TriplettReeling in fishing lines with co-actors.
Performance was enhanced buy presence of co-actors - 2TravisFound that audience facilitates performance
- 3PessinLearning non-sense syllables with/out an audience
Found the learning is inhibited by an audience then a few days later, when asked to recall the words again, audience facilitated performance - 4AllportConcluded that easy tasks are done better with an audience, difficult ones are better alone
- 5SchmidtSupports Allport
Typing name normally or backwards - 6ZajoncZajonc put forward the idea that an audience facilitates the dominant response
'an audience impairs the acquisition of new responses and facilitates the emission of well learned responses' - 7MichaelsGood and bad pool players, the good ones were better with an audience the bad ones were worse with the audience
- 8Drive TheoryThe presence of others raises arousal level. Medium is the optimum level
Difficult task also raises arousal - 9Evaluation ApprehensionBartis
Worringham and Messick - Male joggers with women present, even if they have their backs turned
Henchy and Glass - Typists
MacCracken and Stadulis - No effect on children under 8, its something we develop with age/awareness - 10BartisAsked to think of uses for a knife or think of creative uses for a knife.
Some told they would be evaluated individually other told they are evaluated as a group.
Best performance was normal uses and individual evaluation
Worst performance was creative uses and individual evaluation - 11Schmidt (Challenges Evaluation Apprehension)Arousal was raised even when the audience wore blindfolds
- 12Distraction Conflict TheoryThe presence of others creates a distraction which heightens arousal
- 13SaundersStudy the effect of distraction conflict.
Participants did either a simple or hard task with/out a co-actor.
Participants with co-actors did better on the easy task and worse on the hard task
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- A-Levels Psychology (PSYB2 - Social Influence) Flashcards on Social Facilitation, created by Adam O'Rourke on 24/05/2013.
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