PSY 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Social Loafing, Group Polarization, Deindividuation
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Social psychology the study of the ways in which thoughts, feelings, perceptions, motives, and behaviors are influenced by interactions and transactions between people and society. Process by which people select, interpret, and remember social information. Process by which people come to understand and categorize the behaviors of others. Describe the advantages and disadvantages of groups. Explain factors that determine in-group and outgroup formation. Describe the effects of group membership on social identity and on brain activity. Define social facilitation, deindividuation, group polarization, groupthink, and social loafing. People tend to view outgroup members as less varied than ingroup members. Ingroups consists of individuals who perceive themselves to be members of the same social category. The presence of others generally enhances performance. Occurs when people are not self aware and therefore are not paying attention to their personal standards. The tendency of groups to make decisions that are more extreme than the decisions that would be made by the members acting alone.
