SOCI 419 Midterm: Com330 Exam 3 Study Guide.doc
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Social facilitation theory- idea that we do our best when we are: perception: do you perceive yourselves to be a group, goals: idea that hopefully we are cohesive in wanting to achieve our. If we perform a task we do not do well, we will do worse when in front of others. It deals with the sense that doing things in front of others gives us awareness and arousal. Wholists- greater sum of parts, deals with ideas and abstractions. Reductionists- less or equal to the sum of parts, you can measure, more of a physical thing (you can see, touch, feel) Steiner"s task classifications: additive task group- the outcome of the group is the total of each persons work added together when they are all doing the same job. *ex: tug of war member (ex: hiking, dancing) class jeopardy) are different stages to the group.
