PSY 124 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Social Dilemma, Social Loafing, Deindividuation
27 Dec 2017
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Collectives people engaged in common activities but having minimal direct interaction. People join a group for several reasons such as to affiliate with others, obtain social status, and interact with individual group members. We do it for physical safety and for greater social identity. Social brain hypothesis primates brains evolved because of their unusually complex social worlds. Group cohesiveness the extent to which forces exerted on a group push its members closer together. Social facilitation a process whereby the presence of others enhances performance on easy tasks but impairs performance on difficult tasks. Dominant response the reaction elicited most quickly and easily by a given stimulus. If you do a(cid:374) a(cid:272)ti(cid:448)it(cid:455) (cid:455)ou"re (cid:374)ot familiar with, the presence of others will increase arousal and will enhance the dominant response (in this case unsuccessful activity). Even the presence of computerized images of people can trigger these effects.
