PSYC 2380 Final: Social Psychology Exam 3 review

• School: University of Houston
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2380
• Professor: Chelsie Young

Document Summary

9 group processes: group- two or more people who interact and are interdependent in the sense that their needs and goals cause them to influence each other. Well there is an evolutionary benefit. researchers argue that in our evolutionary past there was a substantial survival advantage to establishing bonds with other people: optimal distinctiveness theory (brewer, 1991) American soldiers beat, sexual- ly abused, and psychologically humiliated iraqi prisoners. What"s bad is the barrel (zimbardo): gender roles appear in our societies. An analysis of magazine advertisements that appeared in. Yes, if we rely on the person with the most expertise, but groups can also make worse decisions: process loss: group interaction inhibits good problem solving. People know what to focus on, doesn"t always happen. Task-oriented leader: getting the job, not focused on relations. Because of physiological arousal, it is eas- ier to do something that is simple and harder to do something new or complex.