PSYC 2310 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Relative Deprivation, Minimal Group Paradigm, Group Dynamics
1 Dec 2016
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Whenever individuals belonging to one group interact, collectively or individually with another group or its members in terms of their group identification, we have an instance of intergroup behaviour (sherif, 1966) Contact happens as a result either virtual or face-to-face. Result of that connection is intergroup relation. When we have multiple members of each group come together and interacting with each other. Social cognition and social comparison and social motivation (discussed in chapter) Principle of least effort we have the tendency to simplify things, we are not processing every aspect and hence, lose specific details about objects, overall accurate ideas. The tendency to rely on over simplified generalizations and to resist information that complicates our categorical distinctions. Human cognitive capacity is limited cannot process every single item by itself, our minds are limited. Categorization is an efficient way to deal with wide stimuli (i. e. see a bird with wings and black in color, can infer it as a crow?)
