Self-Efficacy Theory

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Joedie May A. Valeros August 26, 2015
Maria Keanna Muyargas Psych 180
Self-Efficacy Theory: Implications for Social Facilitation and Social Loafing
In Sanna's article entitled Self-Efficacy Theory: Implications for Social Facilitation and Social Loafing, he presented and tested an expectancy-based model of social facilitation and social loafing, particularly Banduira's Self-efficacy Theory. In Triplett's social facilitation experiment, as cited by Sanna (1992), he concluded that working together led to better performance than when working alone. Contrary, Ringelmann's social loafing experiment, as also cited in the article, said that working atogether ld to worse performance than working alone. Sanna (1992) uses the Self-Efficacy …show more content…
In the first experiment, participant's efficacy expectancy and outcome expectancy were manipulated. Sanna (1992) provide false performance feedback (high and low) after participants work on a task to manipulate their efficacy expectancy. On the other hand, their outcome expectancies were also manipulated by doing a task in 3 conditions: perform alone (low-outcome expectancy), in coacting pairs but evaluated individually (high-outcome expectancy), or in collective pairs in which performances could be evaluated together (low-outcome expectancy). There were 144 participants, 24 of them were in alone condition and 12 pairs in each of the coaction and collective conditions, randomly assigned to the six cells of the research design. The participants arrived alone or in pairs. They were instructed to sit on a table, in front of personal computers, with a partition to prevent pairs from seeing each other. Near the floor, there was a third, larger computer without a monitor or keyboard, which was positioned on a box. They were also asked to read the instructions on their computer monitor. Sanna (1992) used vigilance task to study the performance of people on a given task. After the trial were complete, participants were given a false performance feedback. In high-efficacy condition, the participants received the highest possible performance ranking while in low-efficacy …show more content…
Sanna (1992) used easy and difficult versions of the Remote Associates (RAT). When performing easy task, high-efficacy expectancies were predicted to develop while low-efficacy expectancies when performing difficult task. Similar to the first experiment, the outcome expectancies were manipulate using the 3 levels of evaluation: alone, pairs working on same tasks who could be evaluated and pairs who could not be evaluated. Using the same 144 participants and same setting, they were asked to read the instructions presented on their computer monitor. Different instructions were told for alone and no-evaluation participants, and participant in evaluation to manipulate the outcome expectancy. In efficacy expectancy, however, it was manipulated by giving the easy (high efficacy) or difficult (low efficacy) version of RAT to the participants. Just like the first experiment, they were again asked a series of questions which include questions concerning to what extent they thought the items were easy and difficult to solve (Sanna,
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