PSYCH253 Lecture : Chapter 7- Group Influence From Social Psychology -Myers, Spencer, Jordan -4th ed.
16 Oct 2011
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Group: two or more people who, for longer than a few moments, interact with and influence one another and perceive one another as us . Shaw argues that all groups have one thing in common their members interact. Groups may exist for a number of reasons to meet a need to belong, to provide information, to supply rewards, to accomplish goals. For example, the people on an airplane are not a group although physically together, they are more of a collection of individuals than an interacting group. 3 types of social collective influence: social facilitation, social loafing, deindividuation. Coactors: a group of people working simultaneously and individually on a non- competitive task. Social facilitation: the tendency of people to perform simple or well-learned tasks better than others are present: the strengthening of dominant (prevalent, likely) responses owing to the presence of others.
