Social facilitation

SOCIAL FACILITATION

·         The tendency of the people around you to affect positively or negative in doing an easy task simply put ‘an improvement in performance produced by the mere presence of others’.

·         The negative influences are called Social Impairment

SOCIAL LOAFING

·         The tendency in putting less or any effort for the cause or work due to favorable circumstances

·         Effort or contribution are considered as meaningless or pointless since at the end the results will still be the same regardless

 

The image depicts how some individuals does not contribute in supporting group work

SOCIAL COGNITION

• A sub-topic focuses on how people:

-          Process

-          Store

-          Apply knowledge in situations

• Focuses on the role that cognitive processes play in our social environment

ATTITUDES

1.       A settled way of thinking about someone or something

ABC MODEL

TYPES	DEFINITION	EXAMPLES
AC (Affective Compound)	Involve internal emotion about an attitude object	“I’m scared of spiders”
BC (Behavioural Compound)	Involves the influences that decides on how to react on the attitude object	“I will avoid and run from spiders”
CC (Cognitive Compound)	Involves a person’s belief or knowledge prior to attitude object	“I believe spiders are dangerous”