PSYC 2310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Group Dynamics, Social Cognition, Visible Minority

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2310
• Professor: Saba Safdar

Document Summary

When groups come together, what type of interactions and attitudes they have. Whenever individuals belonging to one group interact, collectively or individually, with another group or its members in terms of their group identification, we have an instance of intergroup behaviour. E. g. someone from psych society association and invite the prof to an event. She represents a group and the prof represents another group. A small group representing a bigger group and interacting another smaller group representing another group. When head of states meet, it is intergroup level (a group of heads of states meat with another group from another country) Categorization is one of the fundamental cognitive processes in human. The way we think is based on categorization. Categorization if the lumping together of objects and events into meaningful grouping. The world is very complex and we need to simplify in order for us to. Natural: distinction between animals and human, mammals and birds.