Final Flashcards
(28 cards)
Distinguish between what a group is and what a group is not
A group is 2 or more individuals having a common purpose
What is entitativity?
How we measure the coherence of a group
Explain typical group development - forming, storming, norming, performing
-forming is creating the group
-storming is recruiting
-norming: greatest danger ( where things go bad, what my ideas are about running the group might be different than others;group starts falling a part)
-performing ( once you are past norming, the people that stay, the group starts thriving; if you don’t come out of norming strong enough the group is doomed)
Explain why groups form?
Strength in numbers
Avoidance of accountability/responsibility
Need of sense of belonging
Material benefits to members
Interpersonal attraction to members(like the people within the group)
Why is there a need for groups?
Division of labor
Different perspectives ( Lens analogy)
Avoidance of tyranny:strength in numbers to avoid switch ups
Deliberative democracy
Manipulation that occurs in group decision making
-stacking the deck to get a majority of support for decision
-Control of procedures or norms
-use of personal relationships to gain support
Psychology and personalities of leaders:
-need for power,high and low characteristics
-cognitive complexity, high and low characteristics
- locus of control
- The big 5 personality traits
-one’s need for impact,control and influence over others.
-cognitive complexity:the ability to recognize and deal with many factors that arise from the same situation/ decision
-how much control over the situation one feels they have
Give an example of social movements
Colonists, abolitionists, progressives
How do social movements start?
Collective endeavor that challenges existing authority structure, common purpose and solidarity; common identity
-sustained collective action
Explain the 4 limiting conditions of deciding to join a social movement
1.The occurrence of a specific recruiting attempt; how many times its introduce
2.The successful linkage of movement and identity; how well does the group/movement match to your identity
3.support for that linkage from persons who normally serve to sustain the identity in question; do you have friends that are apart of the movement or for the group
4.The absence of strong opposition form others on whom other salient identities depend; the lack of other groups that are recruiting
What is meant by the term “astroturf” when discussing social movements
Astroturf meaning fake?
- astroturf movement: fake movements often supported for ulterior motives
Explain the social cognitive dissonance pyramid and how it was used in class?
As you move further and further away from the truth it is harder to go back to the truth
What is extremism?
Seeing the world in black and white, very narrowly with little opportunity for deviation
-examples would be suicide bombers, shooters, etc.
-very narrow definition of what’s right or wrong
How does the quote by Dr. Seuss lend itself to promotion of extremism?
-those who disagree don’t matter and the ones who do, don’t care
-you are good or bad, 100% or 0% no in between
Are extremists insane or calculating
-they are not insane. They calculatetheir actions and possible outcomes. They further use a twisted sort op rationality to promote their actions
Internals and externals( locus of control)
What are extremists?
Internals: people that believe that they have control over their fate
External: people that believe the external environment has control over their rate.
Extremists tend to be externals, thus they deny responsibility for their actions
Is there a problem with “true believers”?
How does cognitive dissonance play into this?
-yes because they are convinced that they are right and anything to the contrary is evil and must be destroyed. Even in the light of truth and evidence, they deny the evidence
- grounded in their belief
What is the bystander phenomenon?
The diffusion of responsibility to act
Explain the 4 facets of denial?
- Cognition: not acknowledging the facts,self dissonance
- emotion: not feeling, not being disturbed ( sociopath - some emotion, psychopath - no emotion)
-morality : not recognizing the wrongness ( subjective) - action: not taking steps in response to knowledge
Why do people use denial?
People use denial to escape the truth and protect their cognitive dissonance
Explain conflict and resolution styles?
Collaborative:working together, you win I win
Constructive: helping you help you win, one sided help
Negotiation: talk it out, might not work
Mediations bring in a neutral party to choose
Explain devil shift?
When a group views another group as “winning” it happens even when their group is actually winning
What is security dilemma?
Occurs when an state increases their own security. By increasing their own, they decrease another States security.
Explain how threats work and What the key components of a threat?
- Only work if the one making the threat has the ability and resources to carry it out
-the key components are the abilities and resources
