Social facilitation
What Social facilitation means in Physical Education A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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Reference: AQA
The presence of others raises arousal and can improve performance of well-learned or simple skills.
The tendency for the presence of others to improve performance.
Topics that use Social facilitation
- Social facilitation (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Arousal and performance
- Arousal and the dominant response
- Audience interpretation
- Drive theory and the dominant response
- Evaluation apprehension
- Overlearning
- Perceived judgement
- Social facilitation and social inhibition
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