Week 4: College

Question 1

Social identity approach incorporates principles from? (2)

Answer 1

1. Social identity theory
2. self-categorization theory

Question 2

What are the 2 main views within self-categorization theory and what do they entail?

Answer 2

1. Exclusive (motivated by individual, self-interest)
2. Inclusive (collective interest/gain)

Question 3

What happens when we view other group members as more similar to us (3)

Answer 3

1. Higher degree of trust
2. More effective in realizing goals
3. Improves well-being

Question 4

What are 4 types of proof that show that in-group members influence us more than out-group members?

Answer 4

1. If someone from in-group tells you a test is stressful, your stress is heightened. If outgroup tells, no change
2. If in-group is collector for charity, much more is donated compared to out-group or neutral
3. If ingroup tells you to have a different opinion, their influence is much larger then when outgroup member tells this
4. If in-group member tells you to eat more popcorn, you do so but outgroup no difference

Question 5

What is the main gist of the article; shared identity key to effective comms? (3)

Answer 5

1. Participants asked to build lego model from instructions from either in-group or outgroup
2. Task performance was better for in-group partner
3. Perceived communication quality was higher for in-group partner

Question 6

What is identity prototypically? (3)

Answer 6

1. Being one of us; the leader embodies the group
2. Who are we
3. Leaders as representation of our social, shared identity

Question 7

What is identity advancement (3d)

Answer 7

1. Doing it for us
2. placing in-group interests above outgroup or other/personal
3. What does the leader do to help us?

Question 8

What is identity entrepreneurship? (3)

Answer 8

1. Crafting a sense of us
2. Ensuring they and vision are prototypical for the group

Question 9

What is identity impressarioship (1)

Answer 9

1. Making us matter
2. Initiate identity-embedding structures (meetings, activities, goals and so forth)

Question 10

What are the 4 elements of social identity leadership and their acronym?

Answer 10

1. Indentity entrepreneurship (crafting a sense of us)
2. Identity advancement (doing it for us, advancing us)
3. Identity prototypically) (representing us, being one of us)
4. identity impressarioship (embedding us, making us matter)