Kinesiology 1088A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Social Loafing, Team Unity, Sporus

• School: Western University
• Department: Kinesiology
• Course: Kinesiology 1088A/B
• Professor: Stephan Larose

Document Summary

A term used to depict the vitality and changing nature of groups and to identify the field of study that focuses on the behaviour of groups. Next to a family, a sports team may be the most influential group to which an individual belongs. It has an extremely strong socializing impact. A sports team offers an ideal setting for research on group dynamics because: It can hold constant many confounding variables (size, rules of conduct, etc). It provides an ideal context for studying cooperation, competition, & conflict. Through its multitude of statistics, it offers many objective measures of group effectiveness. Definition of a sports team: a collection of two or more individuals, a common identity, common goals and objectives, structured patterns of interaction and modes of communication, common perceptions about group structure, are interdependent (personal or task), Between the members on the team, a bond: consider themselves a group.