group behavior

• 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