PSYC 2120 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Secret Ballot, Group Polarization, Social Dilemma
9 Mar 2016
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Group: a collection of three or more people who interact with one another and are interdependent in the sense that their needs and goals cause them to rely on one another. Social facilitation: the tendency for people to do better on simple tasks but worse on complex tasks, when they are in the presence of others and their individual performance can be evaluated. Why the presence of others causes arousal: other people cause us to become particularly alert and vigilant, they make us apprehensive about how we re being evaluated, they distract us from the task at hand. Social loafing: the tendency for people to do worse on simple tasks but better on complex tasks when they are in the presence of others and their individual performance cannot be evaluated. Deindividuation: the loosening of normal constraints on behavior when people are in a group leading to an increase in impulsive and deviant acts.
