Question
How does social facilitation take place?

Answer

  • Social Facilitation refers to performance of an individual on specific tasks influenced by mere presence of others.
  • Individuals generally show better performances in the presence of other.
  • It happens because the individual experiences arousal.
  • Arousal occurs because the individual feels he/she is being evaluated (evaluation apprehension)
  • Nature of the task - Certain aspects of the task affect the performance of the task.
    • Simple, familiar, over learning facilitates.
    • Complex, unfamiliar, less rehearsed inhibit.
  • Role of coaction.

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