SOCPSY 1Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Social Facilitation, Deindividuation, Group Cohesiveness

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Social Psychology
• Course: SOCPSY 1Z03
• Professor: Paul Galvin

Document Summary

Looking at the effect of groups on a member"s behaviour and the effect of a member on the group. Exist in them for much of our lives. A group is a social unit consists of two of more persons and has the following attributes: membership. Has to be there: goals shared by members, shared norms. Being a costco member is not a group by this definition. Being a scout is a group by this definition. Everyone has individual goals: a collection of individuals in which there is membership, but no interaction and no common goal. Massive multiplayer online role-playing games: guild/raids in world of warcraft, have to have membership, have to interact with others, group norms, shared goal. Groups can take place in a variety of forms. A group"s cohesion is the extent to which its members desire to remain in it, and resist leaving it.