Group Processes

Question 1

True or False: Psychology of Evil has to do with aggression.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

What were the social factors involved in the Standford Prison Experiment?

Answer 2

Losing ones own personal identity led to loss of responsibility, deindividualization, and power of the situation

Question 3

Describe the chain of command and the idea of the Bad Apple Approach.

Answer 3

1. Dispositional -> Individual Bad Apples are to blame and they are the ones capable of evil
2. Situational -> The Bad Apple Barrel explores the corrupt environment and the Power of the Situation
3. System -> Bad Barrel Makers is the systematic view of the designers of the barrel (the system didn’t put in place training, direction, punishments in Abu Ghraib or the Prison experiment)

Question 4

How does Zimbardo describe the Banality of Heroism?

Answer 4

That anyone can be a hero; normal everyday people should become deviants to speak up.

Question 5

Describe Social Facilitation. When do we do worse? When do we do better?

Answer 5

Generally, we do better around people when tasks are easy and worse when tasks are difficult in the presence of others

Question 6

Why does the presence of others affect our performances? (Social Facilitation)

What are the 3 reasons for the previous answer?

Answer 6

The presence of others increases Physiological arousal and facilitates dominant responses.

We are more alert and vigilant, make us feel more apprehensive, and other people distract us.

Question 7

Describe Social loafing (Aroused and Relaxed).

Answer 7

• AROUSAL enhances performance on Simple tasks, but impairs performance on Complex
• RELAXATION Impairs complex task performance and improves simple task performance

Question 8

What is Deindividuation?

Answer 8

When people are anonymous, they become more impulsive and commit more deviant acts because of diffusion of responsibility.

Question 9

What is a large mob of KKK an example of?

Answer 9

Deindividuation - behind masks, they are a lot more brutal;

The larger the mob, the more savage the torture.

Question 10

How did the teachers in Milgram’s study justify the max volts?

Answer 10

They were deindividuated - there was a loss of responsibility

Question 11

Is Deindividuation always a bad thing?

Answer 11

No, following pro-social group norms like volunteering is a good example of Deindividuation

Question 12

How does Cohesiveness relate to the bush administration and their bad choices?

Answer 12

Maintaining good relations among each other was more important than finding a good solution

Question 13

What is Groupthink?

Answer 13

Maintaining group cohesiveness becomes more important than the facts.