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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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