Social Facilitation and Inhibition

Question 1

What is SOCIAL FACILITATION?

Answer 1

How the presence of a crowd enhances performance

Question 2

What is SOCIAL INHIBITON?

Answer 2

How the presence of a crowd decreases performance

Question 3

What did ZAVONC DISCOVER and WHEN?

Answer 3

• Found that the presence of others effects arousal levels
• 1965
• Grouped the presence into Passive and Interactive

Question 4

What is PASSIVE PRESENCE?

Answer 4

• Audience and co-actors
• Does not have a big influence unless presence is significant, can lead to anxiety

Question 5

What is INTERACTIVE PRESENCE?

Answer 5

• Competitors and spectators
• Great impact
• Increase arousal levels

Question 6

What effects the DOMINANT RESPONSE of a PERORMER? Describe the relationship

Answer 6

• Arousal levels
• Greater levels = more chances of Dominant response occurring

Question 7

What is the DIFFERENCE between a COGNITIVE learner and an AUTONOMOUS LEARNER’S DOMINANT RESPONSE? What does this difference cause?

Answer 7

• Cognitive learners dominant response is likely to be incorrect
• Leads to social inhibition

Question 8

What is the RELATION between DOMINANT RESPONSES and CLASSIFICATIONS OF SKILLS?

Answer 8

• If arousal is high during a fine skill, it is more likely that incorrect execution occurs
• Vice versa for simple gross skills

Question 9

What effects SOCIAL FACILITATION / INHIBITION?

Answer 9

• Home / away
• Losing streak
• Proximity of crowd
• Hostility of Crowd
• Perception of Crowd

Question 10

Describe EVALUATION APPREHENSION. WHO AND WHEN?

Answer 10

• Cottrell 1968
• Not the presence of others that effects arousal
• But instead depends if the performers see the crowd as judges

Question 11

What are STRATEGIES to REDUCE SOCIAL INHIBITION?

Answer 11

• Practice selective attention
• Imagery or mental rehearsal
• Over learn skills
• Appropriate use of attribution
• Stress management techniques
• Determine optimum arousal levels