Week 7: Groups, Identity, and Behaviour Flashcards
Physical group/ aggregates
A collection of people at the same place that don’t share a psychological connection with each other.
ex) people in a shopping mall, or people in a resteraunt
Psychological group
A collection of people who share a psychological connection with each other that don’t have to necessarily be in the same place.
Interdependence
Group members’ dependence on each other in terms of their experiences, actions, or outcomes.
Social identity
Is the part(s) of a person’s identity that’s based on their group membership
Personal identity
The sense of self that’s based on a person’s individual (physical, psychological, interpersonal) characteristics.
Social idenfication
The process of closley associating the self with a social identity.
Salient identity
The social identity that is active or prominent in a specific context
Aquired idetities
Identities that are chosen by a person
Assigned identities
Identities that are given to a person, inwhich they don’t have a choice.
Self-esteem
A person’s sense of self-worth and confidence
Social norms
Shared standards of behavior in a group
Submergence
The loss of rational thinking in a crowd
Contangion
The spread of behaviors, emotions, and attitudes from one person to another. (Ex. Dancing plague 1518)
Suggestion
A way of influencing another which bypasses their conscious thinking.
Republic
A system of government where a country is ruled by citizens and their elected representatives.
Monarchy
A system of government headed by a king or queen. Monarchs are born into the role (or taken by force) rather than elected.
Mutual intesification
A process whereby the feelings and behaviors of surrounding crowd members affect the feelings and behaviors of the individual.
Agitators
Agitate means ‘to stir’; an agitator is a person who encourages others to escalate thier behaviour.
Ingroup
A group of people with a shared group identity
Outgroup
A group of people that have a social identity different to the ingroup
Ingroup bias
Favourable treament of those with the same social identity.
Identity leadership
Leadership which engages followers through a shared social identity.
Populist
A political approach which presents problems as a conflict between ‘ordinary people’ and ‘the elite’. Those currently in power are usually presented as corrupt and illegitimate.
Social facilitation
Occasions when the presence of others makes individual performance better or easier.
Social inhibition
Occasions when the presence of others negatively affects individual performance.
Social loafing
Occasions where being apart of a group reduces individual efforts
Meta-analysis
The statistical analysis of results pooled from a number of independent studies.
Comman fate
one of the gestalt principles of organization, stating that objects functioning or moving in the same direction appear to belong together, that is, they are perceived as a single unit (e.g., a flock of birds). Also called law of common fate; principle of common fate.
