Social Facilitation and Inhibition

Question 1

what is the drive theory of social facilitation?

Answer 1

There are different types of audience: Passive others and interatcive others.
Passive - silent audience but interested group. Co actors, non-threatening fellow performers.
Interactive - Coactive competitors and emotive supporters.
The prenecnse of people (passive) is sufficient to increase the arousal level of the performer.
It is the belief that arousal is caused by an audience.

Question 2

What level of arousal benefits what type of performer in the drive theory of social facilitation?

Answer 2

High arousal would benefit a performer at the expert stage (autonoimous phase of learning) because the perfromers dominant behaviour would tend towards the correct response.
At the novice stage of performance (associative stage of learning) so the dominant behaviour is incorrect, so, high arousal will cause mistakes.

Question 3

What is the drawback of drive theory of social facilitation?

Answer 3

Is that Zojanc believed that the presence of the audience and of co-actors had the same affect on sports performance.

Question 4

What is home advantage effect?

Answer 4

It is believed that large supportive home crowds are believed to provide the home team with an advantage.

Question 5

What is the proximity effect?

Answer 5

It is proposed that the location of the audience in relation to performance was an important factor in social facilitation. The proximity of the audience may have either a facilitating or an inhibitory influence.

Question 6

Distraction - conflict Theory

Answer 6

Proposed that the limitations of the performer’s attentional capacity can explain the effect of an audience.

• It is said that attention can only be given to a limited number of environmental cues.
• Spectators demand the same amount of attention as the sport situation: This added distraction is yet more competition for attentional space.