Group Processes Flashcards
A need for social ties and close relationships
Need to belong
Three or more people who interact and are interdependent in the sense that their need and goals cause them to influence each other
Group
A body of people who are around each other (3 or more) (common activity)
Collective
Perceived “groupness”/ the perception that people are a group
Entitativity
What you should do within a group
Prescriptive norms
What you should not do within a group
Proscriptive norms
Forming, storming, morning, performing, adjourning
5 stages of group development
Processes that are instigated by the mere presence of others
Collective processes
Presence of other increases arousal, arousal increases dominant response (individual performance)
Social facilitation
The tendency for people to exert less self-effort when their efforts are pooled toward a common goal (group performance)
Social loafing
The loss of a persons sense of individuality (merged identity with a group or crowd)
Deindividuation
When we are not personally accountable, we are more likely to engage in deviant behaviors
Accountability cues
When our attention is not focused on the self, we will not be as likely to act according to our internal standards
Attentional cues
People in groups tend to agree, so discussion leads group decisions to be more extreme
Group polarization
Hearing others similar arguments validates our own argument
Persuasive arguments (group polarization)
