Group Processes

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PSYB10 (Group Processes) Flashcards on Group Processes, created by andreaarose on 12/07/2013.
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Social Groups Consist of social norms and social roles to guide behaviour.
Social Norms A group's "rules" for the behaviour, values and beliefs of its members.
Social Roles A group's expectations for the behaviour of certain members. One's personality can be taken over by the role.
Stanford Prison Experiment People are assigned to roles of prisoner or guard. They were dehumanized by the assignment of roles.
Group cohesiveness The degree to which a group is perceived to be close knit and similar.
Destructive groups (cults) Social group centred around devotion to a person/idea/thing that employs unethical techniques of manipulation.
Characteristics of cults Charismatic leader, self appointed leader, leader is focus of veneration, state has total authority, "innovative and exclusive", goals are to recruit and get funding.
Deindividuation Person loses sense of him/herself as an individual.
Social model of deindividuation effects Deindividuation are the result of a shift from personal to social identity.
Social facilitation Tendency for performance to be improved when doing well learned behaviours and inhibited when doing difficult tasks in public.
Social loafting People perform worse on simple tasks and better on complex tasks in groups.
Distraction conflict theory People are conflicted as to whether they should pay attention to their task or the audience.
Collective effort model Individuals exert effort on a collective task proportionate to the degree that they think their efforts are important.
Process Loss Reduction in group performance due to obstacles created by group performance.
Group polarization Tendency for groups to make decisions that are more extreme than the initial decision.
Group think People's goal of unanimity clouds their decision making. Occurs in highly cohesive, high stress groups.
Transactive memory Shared system for remembering information that enables multiple people to remember information more efficiently.
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