PSYC 2245 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Contact Hypothesis, Group Cohesiveness, Stereotype Threat
9 Dec 2016
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Psyc 2245 - lecture 6 - group processes and prejudice. Group is defined as having 3 or more interdependent people with needs and goals that cause them to rely on each other. Social roles: shared expectations by a group about how particular people in the group are supposed to act. Group cohesiveness: qualities of a group that bind members together and promote liking among them. 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 performance is being evaluated. Social loafing: the tendency for people to do worse of simple tasks, but better on complex tasks, when they are in the presence of others and their performance is not being evaluated. Why do people make us nervous: they make us alter and vigilant, they make us apprehensive about evaluation, they distract us from the task.
