Psychology 2720A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Deindividuation, Group Polarization, Group Cohesiveness

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2720A/B
• Professor: Joel Armstrong

Document Summary

Group: a collection of three or more people who interact with one another and are interdependent in the sense that their needs and goals cause them to rely on one another. Social norms: specify how all group members should behave. Group cohesiveness: qualities of a group that bind members together and. The presence of others increases physiological arousal 2. When such arousal exists it is easier to do something that is simple (dominant response) Social facilitation: the tendency for people to do better on simple tasks but worse on complex tasks when they are in the presence of others and their individual performance can be evaluated. Social loafing: the tendency for people to do worse on simple tasks but better on complex tasks in the presence of others and their individual performance cannot be evaluated. Men are more likely to loaf than women because women have a higher relational interdependence than men.