Social Psychology: Cooperation & Competition

Question 1

Cooperation

Answer 1

When people act together for their mutual benefit so that all of them can obtain a goal.

Question 2

Competition

Answer 2

When a person acts for his or her own individual benefit so that he or she can obtain a goal that has limited availability.

Question 3

Prisoner’s Dilemma

Answer 3

A conflict between 2 “prisoners” who can either confess to the crime or remain silent. Would one person choose to compete or cooperate

Question 4

Robber’s Cave Experiment

Answer 4

An experiment with 2 groups of boys who were asked to engage in cooperative activities as separate groups and then engaged in competition against groups and then engage in cooperative activities as a camp.

Question 5

Superordinate Goals

Answer 5

Goals that are best obtained through intergroup cooperation.