Psychology A-Level
social facilitation and inhibition
What social facilitation and inhibition means in Psychology A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definition of social facilitation and inhibition
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Audience presence facilitates a well-learned skill but inhibits a novel one, as the same social condition helps one task and hinders the other.
Topics that use social facilitation and inhibition
- Section B: Option 4 Sport and exercise psychology (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- anxiety
- catastrophe model and hysteresis
- dominant response
- endorphin and monoamine explanations
- exercise and mood
- gravitation and socialisation accounts
- group productivity and process losses
- interactionist approach
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