SOCPSY 2YY3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Psych, Groupthink, Georg Simmel

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Social Psychology
• Course: SOCPSY 2YY3
• Professor: Katie Steeves

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Midterm: lecture, tutorial, readings, 2-3 sa (choices) - 1-2 paragraphs through response answer every aspect, 40-50 mc. The group process perspective: how social process and psych process operate within group settings, groups, and interaction involving more than 1 person, often formed to complete a task, any sort of casual organization/interaction, studying groups, case studies. In depth examination of a single or a few select groups: get into the group to understand it, +: the fact you can get in depth. : the potential lack of generalizability: experimental studies, measuring and manipulating the importance of group processes in experimental/lab setting, +: manipulate and control environment, easy to see causal relationships. : limited variables, lack of realism in this setting, lack of diversity in participants (usually uni students: non-experimental studies, historic, observational, etc studies that are bigger than small groups of people, there are a few strict guide. The one who speaks first, most talkative, most influential/knowledgeable,