Group processes

Question 1

Group

Answer 1

• Interact more frequently
• Similar
• Influenced by one another’s behavior
• Shared common goal
• Organized

Question 2

Purpose of group

Answer 2

• Evolutionarily: pass on genes within the group. Helping one another led to survival
• Socially: the need to belong, form relations with people who resemble us

Question 3

Group cohesiveness

Answer 3

Qualities of a group that bind members together and promote liking between members. Members more likely to stay, partake, recruit

Question 4

Social facilitation

Answer 4

Presence of others increases physiological arousal. Helpful in doing simple tasks, not when doing complex ones.

Question 5

Social loafing experiment rope

Answer 5

36 participants. One participant against 1, 2, or 3 people. The amount of pull given went down with each member

Question 6

Social facilitation vs social loafing

Answer 6

Social facilitation helps with simple tasks, impairs on harder tasks, social loafing impairs on simpler tasks, helps on harder tasks

Question 7

Deindividuation

Answer 7

Loss of self-awareness and evaluation apprehension. In groups fostering anonymity. Masked people = more impulsive destructive behavior