PSYC 260 Lecture Notes - Group Polarization, Social Loafing
15 Jan 2013
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Power of the situation: the situation people are in has a powerful impact on behavior. Importance of subjective construal: the way people personally interpret a situation (their subjective construal) influences behavior more than the actual situation (objective reality) invitational office hour: Dates and student # on webct-start next week grading: Group assignment: 10% individual article assignment:10% me-search paper: 15% Collection of 3+ people who interact and are interdependent. Needs and goals lead members to rely on each other. Evolutionary aid to survival, helps with food, safety, mates. Within groups, people often occupy well-defined social roles. Social facilitation theory: presence of other (given individual evaluability) arousal. Difficult task with audience slower/ worse what happens when no individual accountability? (when our behavior is not evaluated) Groups solved more problems than smart kid alone. Process loss: aspects of group interaction inhibit good problem solving.
