PSYB10H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Order Of The Solar Temple, Totalitarianism, Normative Social Influence
17 Oct 2012
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Lecture 5 (10/15/12: social groups are divided into non-social vs. social groups. Interdependence: non-social groups are for example, people in a line at a store (no communication or relationships). Group members are expected to conform to these norms. Members who deviate from norms are punished or rejected. Individual personality may be taken over by power of role. In the minds of group members: cohesiveness promotes liking and in-group favouritism. Social facilitation and social loafing: effects of groups on individual performance, created by an interaction of three factors (individual. Improved when doing well-learned or dominant behaviours in the presence of others. Inhibited when doing less practised or difficult tasks in the presence of others. Social loafing: tendency for people to perform worse on simple tasks and better on complex tasks if they are in a group and not being individually evaluated (diffusion of performance in situations like choirs) Socio-evaluative threat: extreme evaluation apprehension, body responds with the stress hormone (cortisol).
