Psychology 2070A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Collectivism, Alternative Culture, Acculturation
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Group dynamics: the social psychological study of groups and group processes. November 26, 2015: new kinds of groups today: the internet has made it easy for people to communicate and form virtual groups. Internet is considered to be an incubator for groups some dangerous. Group: two or more persons who are interacting with one another and/or influencing one another: 1. Obvious requirement for a group is that there must be at least two people: 2. Members of the group must be interacting with one another in some way, or at least influencing one another. Social facilitation: the effects of the presence of other people on individual performance, which will usually be improved performance on simple tasks and impaired performance on complex tasks. Social loafing: goofing off when others can do the work. Social loafing: the reduction of effort that people often exhibit when working in a group where individual contributions are unidentifiable.
