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Social Facilitation
Assessing your knowledge
Exam Prep
Key Terms
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Social Facilitation
Social Inhibition
Audience Effect
Co-action
Dominant Response
Yerkes-Dodson Law
Key Concepts
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Social Facilitation/Inhibition
Arousal Theory of Social Facilitation
Evaluation Apprehension Theory
Distraction Conflict
Topics and Studies
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Triplett (cyclists and fishing reel)
Allport (Multiplication problems, Vowels)
Chen (Ants)
Dashiell (Audience Effect)
 Arousal Theory
 Zajonc (Dominant response)
 Michaels et al (Pool players)
 Zajonc (cockroaches)
 Evaluation Apprehension Theory
 Cottrell (basic theory)
 Henchy and Glass (Performance on tasks
in 4 conditions)
 Distraction-conflict Theory
 Baron (basic theory)
 Sanders et al (Copying digits/distraction
task)
Summary Questions
1. What is meant by social facilitation?
2. Give an example of a dominant
response?
3. According to arousal theory, why
does performance of a simple task in
the presence of others result in
facilitation?
Exam Questions
 What is meant by a dominant
response?
(2 marks)
 Studies of social facilitation in animals
can be explained by some theories
but not by others. Identify one theory
that can explain the effect and one
that cannot. Explain your answer.
(4 marks)
 Simon has just started to practice
gymnastics at a local club. Two days ago he
took part in his first competition. There was
a large, noisy audience present and halfway
through his performance, Simon forgot his
routine.
 With reference to the information above,
briefly discuss two psychological
explanations for Simon’s poor performance
in the competition.
(4 marks)