group behavior

Cards (11)

  • Norman Triplett: found that adolescents would wind a fishing real faster when in the presence of someone doing the same thing
  • social facilitation: improved performance on simple or well learned tasks in the presence of others
  • social striving: an individual exerts more energy when working in a group than when working alone
  • social loafing: tendency for people in a group to exert less effort
  • deindividuation: loss of self-awareness and self-restraint occurring in a group situations that foster arousal and anonymity
  • group polarization: the enhancement of a group's prevailing inclinations through discussion with in the group
  • groupthink: mode of thinking that occurs when a desire for harmony
  • social control: power of the situation
  • personal control: power of the individual
  • culture: behaviors, ideas, attitudes, values, and traditions shared by a group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next
  • norms: rules for accepted and expected behavior; when we don't understand what's expected or accepted we experience culture shock