PSYB10H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Advantageous, Reward System, Cortisol
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Social groups: groups of people or objects with some form of interdependence between each other, level of interaction, shared reality. Vary in how cohesive they are and the effects of how strong or weak they are depend on cohesiveness. When you break social norms or deviate, you are punished or expelled from the social group. You might belong to multiple groups whose norms conflicting from each other. Social norms are behaviors or expectations from group members. Social roles is a subgroup assigned to few people in social groups not all. These roles have a lot of power to see ourselves as individuals. Violation from the social roles get punishment from other group members. Group cohesiveness- degree to which group members are close knit to each other. Social facilitation & social loafing: how groups or presence of other people affect our performance. The presence of social loafing and facilitation depend on 3 factors:
