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Group Process
Group Process
Richard Moreland and Jamie McMinn (2004) distinguish between these perceptions of how entitative particular groups seem and the actual degree of _________ of groups.
Social Integration
What is Groupthink ?
A group decision making style characterized by an excessive tendency among group members to seek concurrence.
What were Roy Baumeister and Mark Leary views on interpersonal relationships?
They believed the need to belong is a basic human motive, "a pervasive drive to form and maintain at least a minimum quantity of lasting, positive, and significant interpersonal relationships".
What are attitudes ?
A positive, negative, or mixed reaction to a person, object, or idea.
What did Solomon Asch experiment examine ?
Solomon Asch (1951) constructed an experiment to test how people's beliefs affect the beliefs of others.
What is collective ?
People engaged in common activities but having minimal direct interaction.
Preventing Groupthink to guard against groupthink, Janis urged groups to make an active effort to process information more carefully and accurately. He recommended that decision-making groups use the following strategies: What are those 3 strategies?
•To avoid isolation, groups should consult widely with outsiders.
•To reduce conformity pressures, leaders should explicitly encourage criticism and not take a strong stand early in the group discussion.
•To establish a strong norm of critical review, subgroups should separately discuss the same issue, a member should be assigned to play devil's advocate and question all decisions and ideas, and a "second chance" meeting should be held to reconsider the group decision before taking action.
______is a necessary first step in the formation of a social relationship.
Affiliation
What did Sociologist Richard LaPiere examine in regards to attitudes and behaviors?
Sociologist Richard LaPiere (1934) was the first to notice that attitudes and behavior don't always go hand in hand.
This term is the tendency to change our perceptions, opinions, or behavior in ways that are consistent with group norms.
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Conformity
This theory holding that the presence of others will produce social facilitation effects only when those others are seen as potential evaluators.
Evaluation apprehension theory
What are SMART goals ?
•SMART GOALS
•S Specific
•M Measurable
•A Achievable
•R Relevant
•T Time
This term is the belief that physically attractive individuals also possess desirable personality characteristics.
what-is-beautiful-is-good stereotype
This term is the process by which attitudes are changed.
Persuasion
This term influence that produces conformity when a person believes others are correct in their judgments.
Informational influence
All groups can be described in terms of three essential components. What are those 3 components?
Roles, Norms, and Cohesiveness
What is Brainstorming ?
A technique that attempts to increase the production of creative ideas by encouraging group members to speak freely without criticizing their own or others' contributions
What are the 2 common eating disorders that are influenced by the beauty standards ?
Particularly among young women, an obsession with thinness can give rise to serious eating disorders such as bulimia (food binges followed by purging) and anorexia nervosa (self-imposed starvation, which can be fatal).
What makes some communicators, in general, more effective than others? What are the two key attributes?
Credibility and Likability.
This term changes in behavior that are elicited by direct requests
Compliance
What is Deindividuation ?
The loss of a person's sense of individuality and the reduction of normal constraints against deviant behavior.
What is the prisoner Dilemma ?
A type of dilemma in which one party must make either cooperative or competitive moves in relation to another party; typically designed in such a way that competitive moves are more beneficial to either side, but if both sides make competitive moves, they are both worse off than if they both cooperated.
What is The Evolutionary Perspective ?
According to this perspective, human beings all over the world exhibit mate-selection patterns that favor the conception, birth, and survival of their offspring and women and men, by necessity, employ different strategies to achieve that common goal (Buss & Schmitt, 1993; Gangestad & Simpson, 2000; Trivers, 1972).
What is Cognitive dissonance theory ?
The theory that holding inconsistent cognitions arouses psychological tension that people become motivated to reduce.
What is Obedience ?
Behavior change produced by the commands of authority.