WK5 L2 Interpersonal processes Flashcards
Need to belong
Basic human motive
Loneliness
occurs 18-30 during transition or disruption
Ways to combat loneliness
distraction, find new way to meet people and additional efforts in others areas
Good looking people tend to have
better social skills, more friends and active love life
Attractive people are under more pressure
eating disorders, trusting others and adjusting to aging
Love
enduring interpersonal love
Passionate love
physiological
Companionate love
emotional
Sternburgs triangular theory of love
intimacy, commitment and passion
Relationship issues
negative affect reciprocity
Social influence
ways in which people are manipulated by others in everyday situations
reciprocity
treat others as they have treated you
Issues that influence group behaviour
norms, roles and status
Conforming to group influence
Aschs line length study
Normative influence
Conform to norm
Informative influence
being persuaded by implicit info
Two types of roles in groups
instrumental and expressive
Group cohesiveness
forces exerted on a group that push its members close together
Social facilitation
presence of others help individual performance
Social loafing
individuals exert less effort when in a group
Group decision making characterised by
group polarisation, cohesiveness and groupthink
Theories of social fascilitation
zajonc theory and Triplett study
Evaluation theory
someone must been position to evaluate performance
Distraction conflict theory
attentional conflict between focusing on task and distracting stimulus creates arousal
Social loafing- ringelmann 1880s
individual output declines on combined task
When is social loafing less likely
group is small and cohesive, task is punished if performance is poor
