Social psychology of teamwork Flashcards
Why is teamwork important?
Important for survival, adaptive benefits, pool resources and knowledge together
What is social facilitation
Presence of others improving a persons performance
What is social inhabitation
Performance being minimized in the presence of others.
Why does the presences of others effect our performance
The presence of others will cause arousal this will lead to a dominant response, which will then lead to social facilitation or inhibitions.
Non drive explanations for improved performance in presence of others.
self awareness
self discrepancy Self-presentation Attention overload
What is self awareness
presence of others makes us think about what we are doing.
What is self-discrepancy
what we are doing and what’s our ideal
What is Self- presentation
wanting to making a good impression.
What is attention overload
much more in attentional field so can struggle to focus and make mistakes.
What is an Additive group situation
Sum of all the members = the product or outcome
What is a compensatory group situation
average of all members = product or outcome
What is a disjunctive group situation
product of one individual = product of group or outcome
What is a conjunctive group situation
Performance of worst member = product of group or outcome
What is a discretionary group situation
Group decides together how to decide the product of group or outcome
Why is brainstorming in groups good?
Reduces dependence on single figure, open sharing of ideas, stimulates participation among group members
