Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Henri Tajfel, Fishing Reel, Drive Theory

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

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What is a group: 2 or more people, interacion, communicaion, we feeling social idenity, common goal. People work harder with compeiion: fishing reel task. His own experiment to prove his cyclist theory. Compeing against someone makes you go faster. Allport (1924: mere presence of others facilitates performance, but others report social inhibiion, presence of others decreases performance. Drive theory zajonc (1965: presence of others audience or co-actors. Correct: performance of well learned response or simple task, improved performance, facilitaion. Incorrect: acquisiion of novel response or complex task, impaired performance, inhibiion. Cotrell (1968: efects due to evaluaion apprehension, presence of others creates anicipaion of posiive or negaive outcomes, audience is blindfolded. So, which is it: can"t be strictly evaluaion apprehension, mere exposure. Groups can easily make worse decisions than individuals. Quality inluenced by: acceptance of common goals, status structure. High status can talk too much: group size. Beter to have uneven number, ideally 5 or 7: cohesive ( we feeling)