Test 8 Flashcards
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Brainstorming
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- Brainstorming is used to generate ideas in groups- members are encouraged to.
- Diehl and Stroebe investigated the idea that if a group works together, an equal amount of work will be completed as communication is blocked and only one person can speak at a time
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Just world phenomenon
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- people blame others based on their misfortunes
- victims of crimes
- Melvin Lerner
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Self concept
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- Self-concept is our definition of ourselves
- Baumeister ‘the individuals belief about him/herself, a persons attributes
- Baron and Byrne ‘individual’s self experiences’
- John Hattie global emotions we feel and the beliefs we have in ourselves
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Self identity
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- membership in particular groups
- We find the group attractive or successful
- Henri Tajfel we determine the status of our group by comparing it to others
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Cooperation
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- Groups often encourage cooperation rather than competition
- Cooperation and coordination is seen to more likely produce a win rather than individual brilliance
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Competition
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- Involves rivals trying to outdo each other to achieve a particular goal
- Muzafer Sherif’s study of ‘The Rattlers’ and ‘The Eagles’ where two groups of boys attending a summer camp competed and winner took all resulted in hostility and aggression
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Intra group relationships
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-Focusing on common group connections between members of different subgroups within a larger group, society, or culture facilitates
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Deindividuation
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- Abandoning the usual restraints of an individual to join in crowds or group behaviours
- Philip Zimbardo anonymous students were more willing to complete a task than those who were identified
- seen in kkk
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Social loafing
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- putting in less effort when in a group
- Alan Ingham asked blind-folded students to pull on a rope as hard as they could, when they had been tricked in believing that they were part of a three person team- they put only 82% of the effort than they would if conscious of working alone
- Preventions: interesting, motivated, essential for success, monitored
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Stereotypes
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-Stereotypes are a form of social categorisation based on what others think of as shared features
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Self fulfilling prophecies
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-stereotype that is a prediction that directly or indirectly becomes true, by the conditions of the prophecy itself, due to positive feedback between belief and behaviour
