PSYC2061 Study Guide - Final Guide: Production Blocking, Social Loafing, Deindividuation
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Through group discussion reinforcement of views causes extreme score to become more extreme: group brainstorming: Group indiv. scores have higher amount of scores. More creative when working indiv before collaboratively. Blocking: in productivity due to fact mem must take turns explaining ideas. Groups do perf. better in some situations but not others. Generate fewer ideas + have < motivation to share unique ideas. Inhibitory effect is production blocking: communication networks: Centralised networks: less harmony b/c dependent on hub person. Hub mem feel > satisfaction than peripheral mem. Less centralised for complex tasks b/c overwhelms hub person: deindividuation: Process where people loose their sense of socialised indiv. id & engage in unsocialised often antisocial behav. Found no. of antisocial responses given by college students is no diff to prisoners in max security prisons. Sit. has more influence on behav. than we would like to believe: system justification: General tendency for people to perceive current socio-political sys as fair, just, stable.
