Social Facilitation
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- Created on: 17-05-15 20:55
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- SOCIAL FACILITATION
- "where the mere presence of others affects performance of an activity"
- Dominant Responses
- Michaels at al. & the pool players
- showed that the presence of others increases performance of a dominant response
- "the behaviour that is most likely to be performed in a given situation"
- Michaels at al. & the pool players
- Arousal
- Distraction - Conflict Theory
- Saunders et al. & the tasks
- shows that distraction causes an enhancement of performance of simple tasks and inhibitance of complext tasks
- Saunders et al. & the tasks
- Evaluation Apprehension
- Bartis et al. & the knives
- showed that evaluation apprehension enhances the performance of simple tasks and inhibits the performance of complex tasks
- "when in the presence of others, we are concerned that they may be evaluating our performance
- Bartis et al. & the knives
- enhances performance at a task when at a moderate level
- inhibits performance at a task when too high or low
- Distraction - Conflict Theory
- Triplett & the fishing reels
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