PSYB10H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Brainstorming, Group Cohesiveness, Deindividuation
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Social norms to guide behavior (a group"s prescriptions for the behaviour, values, and beliefs of its members) Well-defined social roles (behaviour and responsibilities of various subgroups of its members) Vary in level of group cohesiveness (the degree to which a group is or is perceived to be close knit and similar) Centered around devotion to a person/idea/thing that employs unethical techniques of manipulation or control. Person loses the sense of his or herself as an individual. Occurs in crowds, when physically anonymous, and group chanting or stomping. Social facilitation and social loafing (see chart in lecture 6, slide 26) Performance is based on 3 factors: individual evaluation, arousal, task complexity. Social facilitation: tendency for performance to be improved when doing well-learned or dominant behaviours in the presence of others, and inhibited when doing less practiced or difficult tasks in the presence of others.
