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PSY 2510-103 Ch. 9 Notes
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1.
group
Answer: two or more people who interact and are interdependent in the sense that their needs and goals cause them to influence each other
2.
social roles
Answer: shared expectations in a group about how particular people are supposed to behave
3.
group cohesiveness
Answer: qualities of a group that bind members together and promote liking between them
4.
social facilitation
Answer: when people are in the presence of others and their individual performance can be evaluated, they tend to perform better on simple tasks and worse on complex tasks
5.
social loafing
Answer: when people are in the presence of others and their individual performance cannot be evaluated, they tend to perform worse on simple of unimportant tasks but better on complex or important tasks
6.
deindividuation
Answer: the loosening of normal constraints on behavior when people can\'t be identified (such as when they are in a crowd)
7.
process loss
Answer: any aspect of group interaction that inhibits good problem solving
8.
transitive memory
Answer: the combined memory of a group that is more efficient than the memory of the individual members
9.
groupthink
Answer: a kind of decision process in which maintaining group cohesiveness and solidarity is more important than considering the facts in a realistic manner
10.
group polarization
Answer: the tendency for groups to make decisions that are more extreme than the initial inclinations of their members
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