The unique aspect of psychology is that, psychology is a broad scientific study of the human mind and behavior that does not bunch up in one field, but is split up into many branches that focuses on different aspect within the field. In particular, social psychology of the many branches, focuses on the aspect of social interactions in the presence of people’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. This branch collides the gap between psychology and sociology, by using the ideology of sociology, the function of human society, to explain why a certain individual’s mental state is determined by social encounter. Social psychologists revolve around the ideal core that social interaction is key in influencing the behavior and attitude of an individual
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Preloafing is the concept of the preparation of an individual before he or she perform the main task. In one study the article describes, participants of 76 voluntary university male students were randomly assigned to either be in a group tug-or-war or one-on-one tug-of-war. The purpose of this study was to test whether the males in one group will show more preparation than the males in the other group. In the researchers’ experiment, they brought one participant at a time and gave him 20 minutes to prepare or gather himself alone, this was the same for both group. Beforehand, the participants of both groups were shown a video of either the group tug-of-war or one-on-one tug-of war. A webcam was hidden in a plant to record the participant’s actions, but was not broadcasted live to the researchers until the participants were debriefed and gave their consent afterwards. The key focus of this experiment was to see if knowing that one is going to engage in a group work, will it affect preparation beforehand, and will the study correlate that there is preloafing before social loafing?
There were two independent variables, collective and individual. The collective condition were the participants that would be in the group tug-of-war where there would not be a strong individual contribution. The second independent variable was the individual condition; the …show more content…
A limitation that study had was not focusing on both sex but one, males. The article hypothesis that the loafing effect is stronger in male participants than females. However this study was not replicated on females, so it cannot be said if males have a stronger effectiveness. Overall, there were not any major limitations, because the researchers had controlled variables on sex, and results. If this study was only towards males, to improve it, the sample of males should include high school males. High school males are known to be more competitive in sports, so it will be interesting to view if the individual vs. collective condition will be similar, to see if preloafing occurs or not. In a general view, the study could improve by putting the main task into work. The study ended on the preparation task, and the researchers made their conclusions based on that. However, if the study was to end after the main task, the results would still be the same but it will have more conclusively
Preloafing is the concept of the preparation of an individual before he or she perform the main task. In one study the article describes, participants of 76 voluntary university male students were randomly assigned to either be in a group tug-or-war or one-on-one tug-of-war. The purpose of this study was to test whether the males in one group will show more preparation than the males in the other group. In the researchers’ experiment, they brought one participant at a time and gave him 20 minutes to prepare or gather himself alone, this was the same for both group. Beforehand, the participants of both groups were shown a video of either the group tug-of-war or one-on-one tug-of war. A webcam was hidden in a plant to record the participant’s actions, but was not broadcasted live to the researchers until the participants were debriefed and gave their consent afterwards. The key focus of this experiment was to see if knowing that one is going to engage in a group work, will it affect preparation beforehand, and will the study correlate that there is preloafing before social loafing?
There were two independent variables, collective and individual. The collective condition were the participants that would be in the group tug-of-war where there would not be a strong individual contribution. The second independent variable was the individual condition; the …show more content…
A limitation that study had was not focusing on both sex but one, males. The article hypothesis that the loafing effect is stronger in male participants than females. However this study was not replicated on females, so it cannot be said if males have a stronger effectiveness. Overall, there were not any major limitations, because the researchers had controlled variables on sex, and results. If this study was only towards males, to improve it, the sample of males should include high school males. High school males are known to be more competitive in sports, so it will be interesting to view if the individual vs. collective condition will be similar, to see if preloafing occurs or not. In a general view, the study could improve by putting the main task into work. The study ended on the preparation task, and the researchers made their conclusions based on that. However, if the study was to end after the main task, the results would still be the same but it will have more conclusively