(17) social psych

define co-actors

co-participants working individually on noncompetitive activity

what was triplett’s study (string)

told children to wind string on rod and found they did it faster when others were around

define social facilitation

the strengthening of dominant responses in the presence of others

exampels of social facilitation within animals

ants dig more, chickens eat more, and rats mate more

true or false: arousal facilitates dominant arousal

true

what happens if you’re doing an easy task and people are watching

you’re going to do great

what happens when you’re doing a complex task and people are watching

you’re probably going to mess up

example of social facilitation (eating)

you eat more when with others (it’s an easy task)

true or false: people can still choke on easy tasks in extreme cases

true

how does crowding affect people

crowds intensify your negative or positive reactions

true or false: crowding has a similar affect to being observed by a crowd

true

define evaluation apprehension

concerns for how others are evaluating us

what did cottrell find with his experiment on evaluation apprehension

people’s performances weren’t boosted when the observers were blindfolded

true or false: being self-conscious can interfere with our ability to perform behaviors that we perform best automatically

true

how does distraction cause arousal

paying attention to others and our task overloads our cognitive system and arouses us