social facilitation summary

the influence of others on your performance

social facilitation

an audience has a positive impact on your performance

social inhibition

others (audience and co actors) have a negative impact on your performance

drive theory - Zajonc

• presence of audience and co actors increases arousal level

• will produce dominant response

• experts likely to have right dominant response and will benefit off a crowd

• if skill is simple or gross then dominant response is likely to be correct

evaluation apprehension theory

not simply presence of crowd that increases arousal

• arousal increase when performer feels that they are being analysed, evaluated, judged by crowd or specific members (eg, scouts)

home and away effect

• crowd are more supportive

• fimiliar surroundings

• home team is hostile to opponents

• however, home crowd has greater expectations- could cause inhibition

personality type

• type A perform less due to having higher anxiety

• introverts will experience inhibition

levels of experience

experienced players - will have correct dominant response

good previous experience - likely to have facilitation

minimising social inhibition

• learn to block out crowd - train in front of crowd

• teach skills in closed environment in order to gain correct dominant response

• encourage support from team mates

• reduce importance of event

• train to a high standard

• relaxation techniques