Ch.6 Flashcards
A social process that occurs when rewards are given to people for how their performance compares with the performances of others during the same task
Competition
A social process through which performance is evaluated and rewarded in terms of the collective achievement of a group of people working together to reach a particular goal
Cooperation
Occurs when opponents see each other as rivals, with winning as the ultimate goal
Decompetition
Stage 1 of the Competition Process where situation in which performance is compared with some standard of excellence in the presence of at least one other person who is aware of the comparison.
Objective competitive situation
Stage 2 of the Competition Process on how the person perceives, accepts, and appraises the objective competitive situation
Subjective competitive situation
The personality characteristic that best predicts how people appraise the objective competitive situation
Competitiveness
Stage 3 of the Competition Process for whether a person approaches or avoids an objective competitive situation
Response
Stage 4 of the Competition Process on whether a person approaches or avoids an objective competitive situation
Consequences
Cyclists were faster in competition than alone racing against the clock
Triplett’s cyclists
Competition-group students were self-centered, directed efforts at beating others, had closed communication, and exhibited group conflict and distrust; cooperation-group students communicated openly, shared information, developed friendships, and solved more puzzles
Deutsch’s puzzles
Competitors draw cooperators into competition.
Prisoner’s dilemma
Competition can be reduced through cooperative efforts to achieve superordinate goals
Sherif and Sherif summer camp studies
