Where your performance at a task or a sport is affected by the mere presence of other people.
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Dominant Responses
Behaviour we are most likely to perform in a given situation. Ther person may be highly skilled at the task or have little previous experience.
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Evaluation Apprehension
Occurs when performing a task in the presence of others. It causes arousal, which increases the likelihood of the dominant response.
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Conformity
Individuals change their attitudes, beliefs or behaviour in order to adhere to existing social norms.
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Internalisation
Individual accepts the majority group view and believes that view to be correct.
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Compliance
Individual conforms to other people's behaviours but does not find them correct.
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Autokinetic Effect
The apparent movement people see with a stationary spot of light in a darkened room.
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Distraction
Presence of others creates a distraction so performance is negatively effected - distracter task: a task given to participants in memory experiments to prevent rehearsal.
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Card 2
Front
Behaviour we are most likely to perform in a given situation. Ther person may be highly skilled at the task or have little previous experience.
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Dominant Responses
Card 3
Front
Occurs when performing a task in the presence of others. It causes arousal, which increases the likelihood of the dominant response.
Back
Card 4
Front
Individuals change their attitudes, beliefs or behaviour in order to adhere to existing social norms.
Back
Card 5
Front
Individual accepts the majority group view and believes that view to be correct.
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