7 - SOCIAL GROUP

Question 1

What are the stages of group formation according to Tuckman (1965)?

Answer 1

Forming, storming, norming, performing and adjourning.

Question 2

What are the five stages of membership?

Answer 2

prospective member, marginal member, member, marginal member, and ex-member.

Question 3

What percentage of passengers gave up their seats to able-bodied students in Milgram’s subway study?

Answer 3

68% of passengers gave up their seat to able-bodied students during Milgram’s subway study

Question 4

What did Siegel & Siegel (1957) find about the influence of norms on attitudes?

Answer 4

Siegel & Siegel (1957) found that dormitory students become more liberal in their attitudes from exposure to liberal norms

Question 5

What has been found about cognitive dissonance in initiation tasks?

Answer 5

The more embarrassing an initiation task is the higher the rating of the attractiveness of the group - due to cognitive dissonance

Question 6

Why do norms work so well?

Answer 6

Norms work well because they are enforced, interalised, fixed, consensual, frequently activated, and act as action heuristics to make life easier

Question 7

What did Marques et al., (1988) find in their Black Sheep studies?

Answer 7

Bad speeches were rated as bad as (or even worse) when they came from an ingroup rather than an outgroup member