Social Facilitation

Question 1

The presence of others increases arousal and facilitates dominant response tendencies

Answer 1

Dominant Response

• Dominant responses are responses most likely to occur in a situation (habits, responses that are automatic)

Question 2

Presence of other people produces arousal (riles you up) Arousal increases the likelihood of dominant response

• Enhancing performance on simple or well-learned tasks
• Worsening performance on complex or new tasks

Answer 2

Zajonc’s Model of Social Facilitation

Question 3

presence of other people is enough to elicit social facilitation effects
- Must be alert, pay attention

Answer 3

Mere presence of others

Question 4

• Concerns about how one might appear to or be evaluated by others
• Presence of others will not affect performance if no evaluation is involved

Answer 4

Evaluation apprehension

Question 5

when a person is performing a task the mere presence of others creates a conflict between concentrating on the task and concentrating on the other people

Answer 5

Distraction-conflict theory

Question 6

The tendency for people to exert less effort when they pool their efforts toward a common goal than when they are individually accountable

Answer 6

social loafing
(slacking off on a group project)

Question 7

occurs when people who need to make a decision wait for someone else to act instead. The more people involved, the more likely it is that each person will do nothing, believing someone else from the group will probably respond.

Answer 7

Diffusion of responsibility

Question 8

• Make individuals accountable
• Make task challenging and involving
• Make the goal compelling/important to all
• Make individuals feel their contribution is important
• Provide consequences for success and failure

Answer 8

How to eliminate social loafing