PSY 0105 Study Guide - Deindividuation, Groupthink, Stanford Prison Experiment
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Definition: a collection of persons who are perceived to be bonded together in a coherent unit to some degree. Benefits of membership: self-knowledge, benefit from the knowledge of other members, study: participants were given a task. If it conformed with their gender role, they wanted to do it alone. We gain control and are controlled when in groups: affection. Costs of membership: restricts personal freedom, demands time, energy, and resources. Studying small groups: statistical problems, usually we assume independence, in groups we have the problem of interdependence. Socialization: new member: assimilation to norms, accommodation of needs. Maintenance: full member (may be indefinite: role negotiation on both sides. Remembrance: ex-member: remember either fond or horrible things. Group structure: roles: sets of behaviors that individual occupying specific positions in a group are expected to perform, stanford prison experiment, zimbardo. Set up a fake prison situation and randomly assigned students to either guard or prisoner role.
