PYB202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Brainstorming, Drive Theory, Reductionism

• School: QUT
• Department: Psychology and Counselling
• Course: PYB202
• Professor: Unknown

Document Summary

A group can be defined as two or more people who share a common definition and evaluation of themselves and behave in accordance with such definition. Entativity is thought to be the key aspect in group togetherness" by a large school of thought within social psychology. It is that which separates a group from simply a collection of individuals who have been put together. Essentially, it refers to the unity and cohesiveness of a group the idea of the group as a single entity". There can generally be considered to be four main types of groups, all of which differ in level of entitativity: Intimacy groups this typically includes friends and family. Task groups typically are still fairly high in entitativity, though not as much as intimacy: social categories groups which exist due to categorisation, for example a group of students or a group of pregnant women.