Group dynamics Flashcards
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Psychological reactance
Need to reestablish freedom when threatened
Group polarization
Groups make decisions more extreme than internally, shared inclination of its members
Social loafing
Can be reduced when each members contributions can be identifiable
Groups don’t impair performance on individual tasks, because
they provide psychological support
Conflict management strategies
(Smoothing relationship) more important than goal. (Compromising) when both the goal and the relationship are moderately important to you. (Withdrawing) when neither the goal nor the relationship is important,(Forcing) when the goal is important, and the relationship is not (Problem-solving) when both goal and relationship is important and be competent to managing conflicts, it’s important to know all.
Norm of reciprocity navigators
Feel they should return the same benefit of harm
Aschs research on group conformity a percentage of subjects
37% will go along with wrong answer if all other members of the group picked it
Group norms are prescribed modes of
Conduct and beliefs that guide the behavior of group members
Denied addition state of
Anonymity in a crowd
Power
Capacity to affect the outcome of oneself others and the environment used in interpersonal interactions, productive when it increases productivity and benefits, all destructive when used for self benefit or coerce others
When power is seen as a relationship
Both influence each other
Treat factor approach to power
In born or genetically inherited
High power people establish norms to
Protect their position, and the value subordinates
Fundamental attribution error
For the behavior of others, we give personal potential reason example he’s a jerk
Installation of hope
Groups can do this for members who feel that their environment controls them
