Key Terms关键术语：社会促进

Learning Objective 2: Explain the process of social facilitation. 学习目标 2：解释社会助长过程。

Understanding the following key terms will help prepare you for the cumulative quiz.
理解以下关键术语将有助于您为综合测验做好准备。

Distraction-conflict theory: An explanation for social facilitation suggesting that social facilitation occurs because the presence of other people distracts, causing divided conscious attention between a task and others present.
干扰冲突理论：一种解释社会助长的理论，认为社会助长发生是因为其他人的存在分散了注意力，导致对任务和在场者的意识注意力分散。

Social facilitation: The idea that the presence of others enhances whatever response is dominant, sometimes improving performance and sometimes impairing it.
社会助长：认为他人的存在增强了任何占主导地位的反应，有时提高表现，有时损害表现。

Source: https://www.coursera.org/learn/psychology-of-group-behaviors/supplement/8K8pg/key-terms