PEDS303 Lecture Notes - Albert Bandura, Group Cohesiveness, Bandura
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Studies: albert bandura was considered one of the top 5 psychologists of all time, he coined the term efficacy. Task conhesion is the commitment of all players to doing a certain task (ex. Buying into a system, committing to winning a championship. Everyone is willing to do whatever it takes to accomplish the task. Social cohesion has to do with the satisfaction of all team members. In an ideal world we are high on both types of team cohesion. A sense of collective competence shared among individuals when allocating, coordinationg, and integrating their resources in a successful concerted response to specific situational demands. When a player who is good is on a bad team, the teams collective efficacy is low. Results: higher team cohesion (task and social integration) was positively correlated with collective efficacy in basketball, as task-integration increased (ex.