Social Facilitation Flashcards
What is social facilitation?
The effects of others who might be present and watching when sport is played
What does Zajonc suggest?
There’s 4 types of others who can be present when playing sport
Who are the 4 types of others that are present when playing sport?
- Audience
- Co-actors
- Competitors
- Social reinforcers
Who are the audience?
Those watching - spectators or large TV audience
Who are the co-actors?
Those doing the same thing at the same time but may not be in the competition - jogger on other side of the road
Who are the competitors/competitive co-actors?
In direct competition
Who are the social reinforcers?
The people that have a direct influence on the performance and their presence is part of the event - coach
Which two others are passive?
Audience and co-actors
Which two others are interactive?
Competitors and Social Reinforcers
What is inhibition?
Where performance is made worse
What is facilitation?
Where performance is improved
What is evaluation apprehension?
The fear of being judged
What is dominant response?
Focusing on one or two cues as our ability to take in info reduces
What happens to a beginners and an experts performance during dominant response?
Expert improves, beginner gets worse
What are the features of social facilitation in order?
- Audience
- Increased arousal
- Evaluation apprehension
- Dominant response
- Facilitation or inhibition
