PSY220H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Social Loafing, Fishing Reel, Group Polarization
28 Mar 2014
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Intragroup processes: processes that happen within a group. Intergroup processes: processes that occur between groups of people. Turner (1982)"s definition of group: two or more individuals perceive themselves to be members of the same social category . Social facilitation: when ppl do better on a task in the presence of others than when they"re alone: e. g. Triplett (1898) saw that cyclists faster when they raced than alone; study used children to wind string on fishing reel: children who performed this in front of others wound string faster than those who did it alone. Social inhibition: when ppl do worse on a task in the presence of others than when alone: e. g. tasks include difficult tasks like typing name backwards with letters interspersed bw the letters of name. Social loafing: group-produced reduction in individual output on tasks where contributions are pooled (applies to ppl in individualistic cultures)
