PSYC 2310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Muzafer Sherif, Group Dynamics, Bsc Young Boys

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2310
• Professor: Saba Safdar

Document Summary

Whenever individuals belonging to one group interact, collectively or individually, o their group identification, we have an instance of intergroup behaviour. Categorization is one of the fundamental cognitive processes in human. Categorization is the lumping together of objects and events into meaningful group ( brewer, miller) Categorization is an efficient way to deal with wide stimuli - ( communicate effectively) Social- eg. left wing vs. right wing, diff nationalities ( nothing inherent that sep social categories from each other) Is a classification of people into groups based on common attributes. Ethnicity- become highlighted when you interact with people diff than you. People can cross b/w social categories vs. natural they cannot. Category accentuation lly, of either roupings te at separates different. After categories are formed, there is a tendency to exaggerate the difference two categories. Boys were allocated to two meaningless groups ( preference for abstra. Based on which one they liked - they divided the boys into 2 groups.