PSYC 2606 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Enamine, Groupthink, Social Loafing

• School: CU-Boulder
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2606
• Professor: Christopher Loersch

Document Summary

Social psych exam 2 - chapters 12, 9, 11, & 14. How groups function, how they make decisions, and how group decision making can go wrong. How people achieve positions of leadership within a group, as well as the effects of power on people with authority. Ho(cid:449) orderl(cid:455) groups (cid:272)a(cid:374) de(cid:448)ol(cid:448)e i(cid:374)to u(cid:374)rul(cid:455) (cid:373)o(cid:271)s (cid:449)he(cid:374) its (cid:373)e(cid:373)(cid:271)ers" perso(cid:374)al identities are diminished. Social facilitation: initially a term for enhanced performance in the presence of others; now a broader term for the effect, positive or negative, of the presence of others on performance. The presence of others increases arousal and facilitates dominant response tendencies. This improves performance on easy or well-learned tasks but hinders performance on difficult or novel tasks. Dominant response: i(cid:374) a perso(cid:374)"s hierar(cid:272)h(cid:455) of possi(cid:271)le respo(cid:374)ses i(cid:374) a(cid:374)(cid:455) (cid:272)o(cid:374)te(cid:454)t, the response he or she is most likely to make.