PSYB10H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Date Rape, Acculturation, Common Cold

• School: UTSC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYB10H3
• Professor: Elizabeth Page- Gould

Document Summary

Groups have social norms to guide behavior. Social norms: a group"s prescriptions for the behaviour, values, and beliefs of its members. Social roles: a group"s expectations for the behaviour and responsibilities of various subgroups of its members. Group cohesiveness: the degree to which a group is or is perceived to be close knit and similar. Destructive groups (cults) - centered around devotion to a person/idea/thing that employs unethical techniques of manipulation or control. Deindividuation: the state in which a person loses the sense of him or herself as an 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. Process of social facilitation or social loafing: evaluation, arousal, and task complexity;