PSY 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Frontal Lobe, Victim Blaming, Social Loafing

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Najwa Haddad

Document Summary

Group influence: individual behaviour in the presence of others. Social loafing: tendency as an individual to put less effort/energy in the task if we work alone we work more effectively. When we do not know what each one is responsible for. Exception: if we are a group who are good standing from community we are going to work hard. Having very clear responsibility there is high chance of. Social facilitation: how presence of others affect our performance. Enhancement of performance: through easy task with presence of other. Worsen our performance: through hard tasks with presence of other. Likely to happen in crowd when there is no encounters & when we lose our self-consciousness. Group polarization: once member of group talks about a topic & the discussion of initial can becomes dangerous. Group think: janis -1st person to study group thinking. Bad decisions were made every time there is group think.