Week 7: Groups, Identity, and Behaviour

Question 1

Physical group/ aggregates

Answer 1

A collection of people at the same place that don’t share a psychological connection with each other.

ex) people in a shopping mall, or people in a resteraunt

Question 2

Psychological group

Answer 2

A collection of people who share a psychological connection with each other that don’t have to necessarily be in the same place.

Question 3

Interdependence

Answer 3

Group members’ dependence on each other in terms of their experiences, actions, or outcomes.

Question 4

Social identity

Answer 4

Is the part(s) of a person’s identity that’s based on their group membership

Question 5

Personal identity

Answer 5

The sense of self that’s based on a person’s individual (physical, psychological, interpersonal) characteristics.

Question 6

Social idenfication

Answer 6

The process of closley associating the self with a social identity.

Question 7

Salient identity

Answer 7

The social identity that is active or prominent in a specific context

Question 8

Aquired idetities

Answer 8

Identities that are chosen by a person

Question 9

Assigned identities

Answer 9

Identities that are given to a person, inwhich they don’t have a choice.

Question 10

Self-esteem

Answer 10

A person’s sense of self-worth and confidence

Question 11

Social norms

Answer 11

Shared standards of behavior in a group

Question 12

Submergence

Answer 12

The loss of rational thinking in a crowd

Question 12

Contangion

Answer 12

The spread of behaviors, emotions, and attitudes from one person to another. (Ex. Dancing plague 1518)

Question 13

Suggestion

Answer 13

A way of influencing another which bypasses their conscious thinking.

Question 14

Republic

Answer 14

A system of government where a country is ruled by citizens and their elected representatives.

Question 15

Monarchy

Answer 15

A system of government headed by a king or queen. Monarchs are born into the role (or taken by force) rather than elected.

Question 16

Mutual intesification

Answer 16

A process whereby the feelings and behaviors of surrounding crowd members affect the feelings and behaviors of the individual.

Question 17

Agitators

Answer 17

Agitate means ‘to stir’; an agitator is a person who encourages others to escalate thier behaviour.

Question 18

Ingroup

Answer 18

A group of people with a shared group identity

Question 19

Outgroup

Answer 19

A group of people that have a social identity different to the ingroup

Question 20

Ingroup bias

Answer 20

Favourable treament of those with the same social identity.

Question 21

Identity leadership

Answer 21

Leadership which engages followers through a shared social identity.

Question 22

Populist

Answer 22

A political approach which presents problems as a conflict between ‘ordinary people’ and ‘the elite’. Those currently in power are usually presented as corrupt and illegitimate.

Question 22

Social facilitation

Answer 22

Occasions when the presence of others makes individual performance better or easier.

Question 23

Social inhibition

Answer 23

Occasions when the presence of others negatively affects individual performance.

Question 24

Social loafing

Answer 24

Occasions where being apart of a group reduces individual efforts

Question 25

Meta-analysis

Answer 25

The statistical analysis of results pooled from a number of independent studies.

Question 26

Comman fate

Answer 26

one of the gestalt principles of organization, stating that objects functioning or moving in the same direction appear to belong together, that is, they are perceived as a single unit (e.g., a flock of birds). Also called law of common fate; principle of common fate.