PSYC2212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Social Loafing, Social Inhibition, Social Facilitation
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Groupthink: desire for consensus and harmony, leads to conformist behaviour, behaviour overrides a analysis of the problem. Conformity: willingness to sacrifice accuracy for acceptance and group harmony. Groups: a collection of 2 or more individuals who: Interact: are interdependent (relationships, have a common goal. Why join groups: obtains a positive social identity, satisfy core social motive to belong. Behaviour in groups: behaviour in the presence of others can: Improve results: social facilitation, participants asked to cross out vowels in a newspaper column. Increases quantity and quality of ideas: group solving technique, doubles number of ideas. Increases productivity: more ideas are better, wilder the ideas the better. Independent behaviour is better then interdependent behaviour: reasons for productivity loss, social loafing, evaluation apprehension (judgement, production blocking (only one person can speak at a time, social comparison. Production blocking: one-at-a-time conversation rule, minimal overlap between people.
