PSYC 100Lg Study Guide - Final Guide: Fusiform Face Area, Stanford Prison Experiment, Prefrontal Cortex
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12. 1 how does group membership affect people: social psychology: the study of how people influence other people"s thoughts, feelings, and actions. Humans have an overriding motivation to fit with the group. Interpersonal attachments motive have evolved for adaptive purposes: social brain hypothesis (dunbar) Dunbarclaimed that human intelligence did not evolve primarily as a means to solve ecological problems, but rather as a means of surviving and reproducing in large and complex social group. Members of the ingroup more than members of the outgroup. people are more willing to do favors for ingroup members or to forgive their mistakes or errors. Groups influence individual behavior: social facilitation:the presence of others enhances performance. Occurs in other animals: zajonc"s model:animals are predisposed to become aroused by the presence of others of their own species. Arousal leads animals to emit a dominant response. This model predicts that social facilitation can either enhance or impair performance.
