interpersonal process 1

Social Facilitation
1. Triplett's experiment
  1. children wound fishing reels
    1. children performed competitively faster than they performed alone
    2. types of social facilitation
      1. co-action effects
      2. audience effects
2. social inhibition
  1. if the task/behaviour is easy or well-learned-----arousal helps performance
  2. if the task/behaviour is hard or not well-learned-----arousal hinders performance
3. theories of social facilitation
  1. mere presence theory
    1. arousal facilitated the performance of the dominant response
    2. arousal impaired the performance of the non-dominant response
  2. distraction-conflict theory
    1. the presence of others influences our performance because people are cognitively distracting
    2. the presence of others produces a conflict between paying attention to the task and paying attention to the audiences
    3. this conflict leads to increased arousal, which either facilitates or inhibits our performances.
  3. evaluation-apprehension theory
    1. proposed that we are aware of social approval and disapproval from being evaluated by others
    2. we are apprehensive about beingevaluated by otehrs
4. 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
1. Definition The reduction in individual motivation and effort that occurs when individuals work collectively compared to when they work alone or co-actively
2. reasons for social loafing
3. factors that influence Social loafing

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