PSYCH 13 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Social Loafing, Deindividuation, Psych
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The nature of groups: groups can be: large or small, short lived or enduring, concentrated or dispersed, structured or informal, specific purpose or no specific purpose, autocratic or democratic, voluntary or involuntary. Entitativity (ie; groups as entities): distinct, coherent and bounded. Collective: people engaging in common activity but having little direct interaction with each other. Roles: their set of expected behaviours, can be formal or informal. Norms: rules of conduct, can be formal or informal. Cohesiveness: forces exerted on a group that push its members together. Social facilitation: the tendency for people to perform differently when in the presence of others than when alone. Compared to their performance when alone, when in the presence of others, they tend to perform better on simple or well- rehearsed tasks and worse on complex or new ones. The zajonc solution is the explanation of the differential effect of the presence of others on our performance.
