PSY B110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 34: Social Loafing, Teamwork, Scientific Method
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Uses the scientific method to describe, explain, predict, and change how we perceive and affect one another. Social influence: how to get others to think or behave in certain ways. Collective: 3 or more people engaged in common activities but having minimal direct interaction. Group: 3 or more interacting persons who share common goals, have a stable relationship, are somewhat interdependent, and perceive that they are part of something larger than themselves. But audience and competition also can worsen performance. New, unrehearsed, difficult, poorly learned response is inhibited. Social loafing: tendency to expend less effort on collective tasks than when an individual is working alone. Being closed off to alternative courses of actions. Motivation to go along with the group. All of us have a tendency to conform. Normative social influence: conform out of a desire to be right, perceive that the group may know something we do not. Subject enters room with four or more other participants.
