Social T6 Flashcards
How would Freud, LeBon and McDoughall?
crowds unlock the unconscious and strip the super-ego that is norm conformative of controlanonzmitz, contangion and suggestibility make us antisocial and violentmost widespread instinctive emotions are the simple primitive ones (e.g. fear, anger) primate sympathy leads to the snowballing also aggregated by depersonalisation
What are groups?
group of people working towards a common objective that might not include their personal goal but enables an interactive setting
What is Deindividuation
Process whereby people lose their sense of socialised individual identity and engage in unsocialised, often antisocial, behaviours (Festinger, Pepitone, Newcomb 1952)
What is group polarisation
tendency for a group to produce decicisions that are more extreme than the previously presented average of individual opinions
What is groupthink
group decision making that leads to poor decisions because the need for group harmony is stronger than the need to make rational decisions
What is meant by bystander intervention and what is it influenced by
This occurs when an individual breaks out of the role of a bystander and helps another person in an emergency. Presence of a group because a lone bystander is more likely to help
What is risky shift
one person considering capital punishment meets other people who are in favour of capital ⇒ group decisides on capital punishment
What is social facilitation?
improvement in performance induced by the real, implied, or imagined presence of others. → co-action and audience effect
What is social loafing
decreased group performance because of group workings and diffusion of responsibility
What is stereotype lift
members of groups that attract favourable societal stereotypes
What is stereotype threat
Feeling that we will be judged and treated in terms of negative stereotypes of our group, and that we will inadvertently confirm these stereotypes through our behaviour Impairs performance and increases anxiety (Steele and Aronson)
