Week 2 Flashcards
What is meant by the term ‘groupthink’?
A mode of thinking in which the desire to reach unanimous agreement overrides the motivation to adopt proper, rational, decision-making procedures.
What is meant by the term ‘group polarisation’?
The tendency of group members to shift their position to a more extreme one after group discussion than the one they expressed initially.
True or False? Social comparison theory proposes that in order to work out how to behave in the world, we compare our abilities and opinions to those of others.
True
True or False? Entitativity is ‘all those processes tat function to hold the group together.’
False
Which concepts were integral to Gustave LeBon’s (1895) theory of crowd behaviour?
Anonymity, Contagion and Suggestibility.
What is meant by the term ‘social facilitation’?
How individual performance is impacted by the presence of others.
What is meant by the term ‘social loafing’?
The tendency of individuals to make less of an effort when they are working collectively with others than when they are working alone.
What types of questions are used in semi-structured interviews?
A list of open-ended questions.
What does working with ‘qualities’ involve?
Rich data
What is Interval Data?
Where the measurement is on a scale where the difference between adjacent points are the same or standardised.
What is Nominal Data?
Where the measurement involves naming an attribute of the participants or their responses (e.g. gender, age)
What is Ordinal Data?
Where the measurement is on a scale that allows data to be put into an order but where the differences between adjacent points on the scale are not equivalent.
What is the process of turning an abstract idea into a measurable concept called?
Operationalisation
