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Metropolitan University Module Title: Personality and Social Psychology Module Code: PY1003C Use the literature on Social Facilitation to discuss the extent to which task performance may be influenced by the presence of an audience (as compared to performing the same task when alone). Michaela Strasikova Student number: 05048325 Number of words: 1075 The essence of social psychology is to focus on the behaviour of a number of people rather than the individual. This is simply because many situations and many of the activities of our lives involve other people. People are stimulated and distracted by being in the presence of an audience. We are also influenced by the variety of social norms and pressures. However, people tend to behave and think differently being in groups rather than when one is alone. In the late nineteenth century Norman Triplett occupied his self by the effects of other people on individual performance. He realised that bicycle racer's...

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