Audience Effects and soical loafing

This set of flashcards covers key concepts related to social influence, audience effects, social facilitation and inhibition, and social loafing as discussed in the lecture notes.

Social Influence

Any change in a person’s thoughts, feelings, or behavior that has its origin in another person or group.

The influence of people on people

Audience Effects

The impact of the mere presence of other people on an individual's behavior, affecting normal solitary performance.

What changes in an individual’s normal solitary performance occur when other people are present?”

 

Social Facilitation

Improvement in performance in the presence of others, especially on well-learned or simple tasks.

Dominat response correct

Audience effort Triplett study

Cyclists ride faster when racing/ competing than when riding alone

► Children reel faster when racing in pairs than when alone

 

AUDIENCE EFFECTS

Murray, Neumann, Moffitt, & Thomas (2016)

Rowing performance and Virtual Reality

 

►   ⬆   Distance + Power, Enjoyment in BOTH VR groups vs CONTROL

 

►   ⬆   Distance in PARTNER vs INDIVIDUAL VR

Arousal from having others around can lead to

●Social facilitation

► Improvement in performance in presence of others

► Do better

► Well-learned/easy/simple tasks

Dominant response correct

 

●Social inhibition

► Deterioration in performance in presence of others

► Do worse

► Poorly-learned/difficult/complex tasks

Dominate response incorrect

 

Social Inhibition

Deterioration in performance in the presence of others, particularly on poorly-learned or difficult tasks.

Dominate response incorrect

Social Loafing

A reduction in individual effort when working on a collective task compared to working alone.

Triplett's Study (1898)

Demonstrated that cyclists ride faster when competing against others than when riding alone.

Social loafing

A reduction in individual effort when working on a collective task compared with working alone

 ●Max Ringelmann conducted study tug of war ganze

 

► Individuals exerted less effort when 

   pulling on rope in group compared to 

   alone

• Fewer people= similar amount of effort

• Number of people in group increased = individual effort decreased

Ringelmann Effect

Observed that individuals exert less effort when in a group during tasks like tug-of-war.

Performance Outcome

Effects of social presence on performance which can be categorized as either facilitation or inhibition.

Dominant Response

The response that is most likely to occur in a given situation, which can be correct or incorrect depending on task difficulty.

Physiological Arousal

An increase in arousal levels that can enhance or impair performance depending on the task involved.