PS390 Chapter : T6.3.docx
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Table 6. 3: activity: small group behaviour, summary table. Your answer: groups do not have their own identity, because only individuals can have an identity. Accordingly, he insisted that psychologists should only investigate individuals in a group; the group itself was sociologists" domain. He argued that a small group of any type has a characteristic gestalt influencing each of its members. If membership changes in the group the entire configuration will rearrange itself, because the members are dynamically interdependent. He coined the term group dynamics to refer to group processe.
