Ch 9 Group Process: Influence in Social Groups Flashcards
Two or more people who interact and are interdependent in the sense that their needs and goals cause them to influence each other
Group
Shared expectations in a group about how particular people are supposed to behave
Social Roles
Qualities of a group that bind members together and promote liking among them
Group Cohesiveness
When people are in the presence of others and their individual performance can be evaluated, the tendency to perform better on simple tasks and worse on complex tasks
Social Facilitation
When people are in the presence of others and their individual performance cannot be evaluated, the tendency to perform worse on simple or unimportant tasks but better on complex or important tasks
Social Loafing
The loosening of normal constraints on behavior when people cannot be identified (such as when they are in a crowd), leading to an increase in impulsive and deviant acts
Deindividuation
Any aspect of group interaction that inhibits good problem solving
Process Loss
The combined memory of a group that is more efficient than the memory of the individual membersT
Transactive Memory
A kind of thinking in which maintaining group cohesiveness and solidarity is more important than considering the facts in a realistic manner
Groupthink
The tendency for groups to make decisions that are more extreme than the initial inclinations of its members
Group Polarization
The idea that certain key personality traits make a person a good leader, regardless of the situation
Great Person Theory
Leaders who set clear, short-term goals and reward people who meet them
Transactional Leaders
Leaders who inspire followers to focus on common, long-term goals
Transformational Leaders
The idea that leadership effectiveness depends both on how task-oriented or relationship-oriented the leader is and on the amount of control and influence the leader has over the group
Contingency Theory of Leadership
A leader who is concerned more with getting the job done than with workers’ feelings and relationships
Task-Oriented Leader
