L4 Group Processes

Question 1

what is a group

Answer 1

wo or more people who share a common definition and evaluation of themselves and behave in accordance to the definition

Question 2

social facilitation

Answer 2

improvement of easy tasks in the mere presence of other people of the same species

Question 3

mere presence

Answer 3

entirely passive and unresponsive audience

Question 4

social inhibition

Answer 4

deterioration in performance of harder tasks due to mere presence

Question 5

drive theory

Answer 5

theory that the physical presence of members of the same species instinctively causes arousal that motivates performance of habitual behaviour patterns

Question 6

evaluation apprehension model

Answer 6

physical presence of the same species causes drive because people have learnt to be apprehensive about being evaluated

Question 7

distraction- conflict theory

Answer 7

the physical presence of same species is distracting and causes conflict between attending to audience or the task

Question 8

social loafing

Answer 8

reduction on individual effort when working on a collective task where outputs are pooled

Question 9

why do people loaf

Answer 9

output equality

evaluation apprehension- people not accountable in groups

Question 10

output equality

Answer 10

we believe others loaf so to maintain equality we loaf

Question 11

how to reduce social loafing

Answer 11

identifiability

individual responsibility

Question 12

collective effort model

Answer 12

people put effort into group task when they believe:

input will have impact

completing task will bring value

Question 13

groupthink

Answer 13

mode of thinking in highly cohesive groups in which the desire to reach unanimous agreement overrides the motivation to adopt proper rational decision making procedures