T3: Lecture 6

Question 1

What is Social Facilitation?

Answer 1

How the physical presence of others influences our behaviour

Question 2

Schmitt saw what kinds of results in study of social facilitation?

Answer 2

• Presence had detrimental effects
• When others present
• > Simple task ability improved
• > Complex task ability decreased

Question 3

What is the Drive Theory of Facilitation?

Answer 3

• Presence of others increases arousal causing display of our dominant response
• Performance is enhanced if our dominant response is appropriate
• Performance is impaired if our dominant response is inappropriate

Question 4

What is Diffusion of Responsibilty?

Answer 4

As group size increases, individual responsibility decreases

Question 5

What is De-Individuation?

Answer 5

Presence of other people can have bizarre or negative effects

Question 6

What happens when people are surrounded by others?

Answer 6

• Lose self-awareness and begin to feel anonymous

- When aroused, loss of SA works to disinhibit impulses normally kept under check

Question 7

Impulses are…

Answer 7

Situationally dependent

Question 8

Decrease in self-awareness increases…

Answer 8

Anti-social behaviour

e.g. anonymity leads to aggression

Question 9

Increase in self awareness decreases….

Answer 9

Antisocial behaviour

e.g. when a mirror was present at a halloween candy station people took the correct amount

Question 10

What is confomity?

Answer 10

How influence can change what you say

e.g. line experiment when everyone says the obvious wrong one but participant goes along with it

Question 11

What did Milgram’s study look at?

Answer 11

• To what extent do people obey

- Study found that people will hurt others when ordered to do so