Exam 2 Part 3 Flashcards
Group, Define
Collection of interacting individuals with a common purpose or activity
It is adaptive, Social needs, need to survive
Cohesion
The degree in which group member are closed and commited to each others
Our performance in group, what infuenced it
Mismatch and conflicting
If the role match with our strength: Performance goes up
If conflicting, performance goes down (mom and daughter)
Social Facilitation
Performance improves or decline depending if people are watching.
When you now the task well: Performance increase
If you do not know the task well, performance decrease
It causes arousal response.
Mere presence, what is it
Having people around gives you more energy
But also distracts you and you might feel like they can judge you, adding pressure
Social Loafing, what is it, why it happens and how to reduce it
Reduction of individual output on easy tasks where contributions are pooled
Why? Feel less responsible, dispensability of effort (Do not feel like we are making a difference) Sucker effect (Slacker)
Reduce: Small group, evaluate individual contribution, group goal, give each other a task
Biased info sampling
Tendency of the group to spend more time talking about information they already know
Collective effort model
Theory that individuals will exert on a collective task to the degree which they think their effort matches their impact
Deindividuation
loss f a person sense of individuality and the reduction of normal constraint against deviant behaviours
Happens when anonymous, in large group (when arouse)
opposite of being self-conscious
Distraction conflict theory
When the presence of others distracts you from the tasks creatng Social facilitation
Evaluation apprehension theory
Presence of others produce social facilitation effect because we feel lke they judge us
GRIT
Graduated and reciprocated initiatives in tension reduction
Strategy for unilateral persistent efforts to establish trust and cooperation between opposite partie
Group support system
Programs that support brain storming
Group polarisation
exageration through group discussion overtime
Group think and why does it happens
Excessive tendency to seek agreement among group members (strong desire to be cohesive, on the same page)
-Strong leader
- Isolation of the group
Counteract by having a less dominant leader, encourage someone to think the opposite, ask outside of the group