PSYB10H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Anterior Cingulate Cortex, Facial Action Coding System, Group Cohesiveness
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Groups: two or more people who interact with one another, share similar characteristics, and collectively have a sense of unity. Social groups: have social norms, roles, and group cohesiveness. Social norms: group s prescriptions for the behaviour, values, and beliefs of the members: group members are expected to conform to these norms, to not conform can lead to punishment and exclusion. Group cohesiveness: the degree to which a group is or is perceived to be close knit and similar. In minds of group members: cohesiveness promotes liking and ingroup favouritism. In minds of outgroup members: cohesiveness results in stereotyping of group members. Destructive groups (cults): social group centered around devotion to a person/belief/thing that employs unethical methods of manipulation and control. Deindividuation: state in which person loses the sense of himself as an individual occurs in crowds, when physically anonymous, when group chanting/stomping. Social facilitation and social loafing: effects of groups on individual performance.
