Week 7

Question 1

What are the five types of groups?

Answer 1

• Entitativity - the feature of a group that make it appear a distinct unit is bound together.
• Intimacy groups - groups that are closely tied together.
• Task groups - groups that have come together temporarily to achieve a specific goal.
• Common bond groups - members have close personal bonds within the group.
• Common identity groups - members have close personal ties with the group itself.

Question 2

What does formmating involve?

Answer 2

Acceptance, avoidance of conflict and controversy, working out structure and roles.

Question 3

What does storming involve?

Answer 3

addressing issues, conflict, conflict may be suppressed in the interest of harmony.

Question 4

What does norming involve?

Answer 4

Listening, support and flexibility, common identity and purpose.

Question 5

What does adjourning involve?

Answer 5

task is complete, and the group disengages.

Question 6

What are the 5 membership phases?

Answer 6

Prospective member, marginal member, member, marginal member, ex-member.

Question 7

What is role transition?

Answer 7

Where your member to a group ends due to a change, or development in which re-socialisation is not an option.

Question 8

What are some group structure norms?

Answer 8

• formal or informal rules.
• regulate and guide behaviour.
• some norms are universal, some vary across cultures.

Question 9

What are descriptive norms?

Answer 9

Norms that most people follow, whether they are right or wrong.

Question 10

What are injunctive norms?

Answer 10

Norms that are perceived as being approved by other people.

Question 11

Why do norms work so well?

Answer 11

• often enforced
• often people internalise them
• become fixed during socialisation
• are consensual
• frequently activated
• act as action heursitics to make life easier

Question 12

What are deviants?

Answer 12

• marginal group members
• generally disliked
• subjective group dynamic model

Question 13

What are Imposters?

Answer 13

People posing as legitimate group members when they are not.

Question 14

What are schism and subgroups?

Answer 14

When groups break off and smaller groups (subgroups) form.

Question 15

What can groups do for us?

Answer 15

• Interdependence - achieve more in groups than when alone.
• Affilation, simularity and support - group together with people who have the same attitude.
• reducing uncertainty - identifying with groups tells us a lot about who we are and how we are supposed to behave.
• need for social identity - motivation to protect the group because it is apart of the self-image.
• Optimal distinctiveness - people like to distinguish themselves from others.