Social Facilitation definitions Flashcards
What is inhibition?
Where performance will get worse
What is facilitation?
Where performance will improve
Who’s study is this?
Zajonc
What is the order on the diagram?
Audience > arousal > increased psychological “drive” to perform > dominant response required (facilitation) or non-dominant response required (inhibition)
What is dominant response required?
Behaviours that are most likely to be produced by a person
What is non-dominant response required lead to?
Inhibition
What is arousal?
A physiological state of alertness and anticipation
What are the 2 types of conformity?
Internalisation & Compliance
What is the TYPE where the subject comes to accept and eventually believes the groups view?
Internalisation
What is the TYPE where the subject goes along with the group but privately disagrees with it?
Compliance
What are the two explanations for conformity ?
Informational & normative
What is the EXPLANATION where it is the need to be right & to give the correct interpretations?
Informational
What is the EXPLANATION where it is the need to behave appropriately by relying more heavily on others?
Normative
What is the ASCH study about?
Where participants have to match lines but there is only one real participant but the others say the wrong answer etc.
What are co-actors?
Two or more people individually performing the same task
