Groups Flashcards
Lickel et al. (2000) distinguished different types of groups, what are they?
Intimacy - friends and family
Task - football team
Social - black people
Loose association - people at a bus stop
What is entativity? (Campbell, 1958)
The degree to which a collection of persons is perceived as being bonded together in a coherent unit
Why do we join groups (Hogg, Hohman & Rivera, 2008)
Pleasure and pain
Life and death
Sense of belonging
What is the sociometer theory?
Self-esteem motivates group membership as it monitors social belongingness
High self esteem = low conformity
What is Terror Management Theory?
Coping with death anxiety by conforming to groups with symbolic significance
What is Tuckman’s (1965) 4 Stage model of group development?
Forming - testing and dependence - how?
Storming - intra-grill conflict - conflict of opinion
Norming - development of cohesion - coming together
Performing - functional role relatedness - making it work
What 3 basic psychological processes underlie socialisation in small groups?
Evaluation - groups and individuals establishing rewardings and monitoring discrepancies between expected and actual behaviour
Commitment - depends in outcome of evaluation process
Role transition - occurs when commitment rises if falls to decision criterion, involves relabelling individuals relationship
What is the equibrilum problem?
A need to balance between task orientated behaviour and social- emotional behaviour
What is a 2 leader emergence?
Instrumental leadership: getting task done
Socio-emotional leadership: holding group together
In the typical Terror Management Theory experiment, the ….. Of the experimental group of participants is manipulated
Mortality salient
A S.I.D.E perspective on riots would accept?
The pattern of crowd behaviour in a riot reflects the worldview of rioters: their sense of who is friend and who is foe
