... Allport, 1920, Dashiell, 1930, Travis 1925) cited in (Myers, D G, Social Psychology, New York, McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2002) that to improve simple motor tasks e.g. keeping a metal stick in contact with a dime sized disk on a moving turn-table. However, other studies cited in (Myers, D G, Social Psychology, New York, McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2002) have shown that more complicated tasks e.g. learning nonsense syllables, completing a maze and performing multiplication problems (Dashiell 1930, Pessin 1933, Pessin and Husband 1933) that in these cases the presence of others has a disruptive effect. These two theories were seen as disjointed until social psychologist Robert Zajonc pondered the thought that these two theories could be used together to give a fuller explanation. In 1965 he worked on the theory from experimental psychology that arousal enhances performance on easy tasks for which the most likely "dominant" response is the correct one e.g. ...

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