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Flashcards by Adam O'Rourke, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Adam O'Rourke
over 11 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Drive Theory | The presence of others raises arousal level. Medium is the optimum level Difficult task also raises arousal |
| Evaluation Apprehension | Bartis Worringham and Messick - Male joggers with women present, even if they have their backs turned Henchy and Glass - Typists MacCracken and Stadulis - No effect on children under 8, its something we develop with age/awareness |
| Bartis | Asked to think of uses for a knife or think of creative uses for a knife. Some told they would be evaluated individually other told they are evaluated as a group. Best performance was normal uses and individual evaluation Worst performance was creative uses and individual evaluation |
| Schmidt (Challenges Evaluation Apprehension) | Arousal was raised even when the audience wore blindfolds |
| Distraction Conflict Theory | The presence of others creates a distraction which heightens arousal |
| Saunders | Study the effect of distraction conflict. Participants did either a simple or hard task with/out a co-actor. Participants with co-actors did better on the easy task and worse on the hard task |
| Triplett | Reeling in fishing lines with co-actors. Performance was enhanced buy presence of co-actors |
| Travis | Found that audience facilitates performance |
| Pessin | Learning non-sense syllables with/out an audience Found the learning is inhibited by an audience then a few days later, when asked to recall the words again, audience facilitated performance |
| Allport | Concluded that easy tasks are done better with an audience, difficult ones are better alone |
| Schmidt | Supports Allport Typing name normally or backwards |
| Zajonc | Zajonc put forward the idea that an audience facilitates the dominant response 'an audience impairs the acquisition of new responses and facilitates the emission of well learned responses' |
| Michaels | Good and bad pool players, the good ones were better with an audience the bad ones were worse with the audience |
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