Question

Which term denotes that the mere presence of other people in your environment affects your behavior

Answer 1

The term is social facilitation.

Answer 2

The term is Social facilitation.

Social facilitation can be defined as an improvement in performance caused by the mere presence of others, it can be further distinguished into two types:

• co-action effects which is a phenomenon where increased task performance is caused by the mere presence of others doing the same task.

• audience effect where performance is increased in the presence of a passive spectator/audience