Group Processes and Social influence 3

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what is collective behaviour
multiple individuals acting as one
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what is the main question regarding collective behaviour
how does this happen
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what was the first opinion on collective behaviour
threatening to civilisation
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there was a _______ problem
legal
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what was the legal problem
when collective behavour involves unlawful behavoiur, is it due to the individuals and their personalites therefore individuals get prosecuted or are individuals swept up in individuality dissaperas
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what was the first theory explaining why we have collective behavoiur
group mind theory
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explain the group mind theory
we have a primordial preexisiting unscious group mind which guides feelings and behavoiurs
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who was a cruical figure of the group mind theory
Gustave Le Bon
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how did describe how individuals become part of a group
submerged
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the individuals mind disappears and gets replaced with what
racial unconscious
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the racial unconscious consists of what
primitive drives and instincts
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this can spread and this is called
contagion
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nowadays contagion is called what
social influence
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what was the second theory explaining why we have collective behavoiur
individualism
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who was a crucial figure of individualism
Allport
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allport focus on what
individuals
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he believed the individuals of a collective group where what two things
already similar, criminals
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what are two negatives that both group and individualism have in common
Assumption that collective behavoiur is violent and all based on secondary evidence
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who criticsed them both
Asch
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what was his criticisms
Le Bon you focus too much on the group and Allport you focus too much on the individual.
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Asch came up with what
the gestalt principle
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what does the gestalt principle state
the whole is different to the sum of its parts
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who did work on group norms
sherif
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what was his experiment called
autokinetic effect
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group norms are _________ by the group and then _________by the indidvidual
produced, interanalised
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the group norm is then used as a what
frame work, reference
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so what are the 3 key features of the interactionism theory
not violence and mindlessness, not primitive but thoughtful, source of group comes through interpersonal interaction
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what experiment went against the last point
minimal group paradigm
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by who
Taijal
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what did they ask the boys to do
distribute resources to their group and other group
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what did the find
boys consistently favoured their own group
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even though what 3 things
didnt know who was in ingroup/outgroup. got told the difference in group has no meaning. had never interacted with members.
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what was the third theory explaining why we have collective behavoiur
Self-caterogorisation theory
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by who
turner
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turner sees what mechanism as a driving force for group bheavoiur
social identity
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social identities consist of what
self catergories
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define self category
cognitiive representation of self that is in comparsion to wothers
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these self catergorisations can exist at different levels of _______, from more ______ to the most _______
abstraction, inclusive, exclusive
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self categorisation theory saysa that what are equal in terms of realness
personal self = collective self
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what is the main question
when do self categories become salient
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what is the answer
the perfect fit x perceiver readiness combo
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what are 2 types of fit
comparative or normative
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what is another name for comparative
meta contrast
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what is comparative fit/meta contrast
difference within group is less that difference between group
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give evidence for this
London bombing reports of tube
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what is normative fit
if the in group members behave in the way we'd expect them to
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what is perceiver readiness
motivational and knowledge variables
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give two examples
commitment and memory
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salience leads to what
accentuation/exaggeration
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accentuation of what
similiarities within and differences between
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social influence operates through what
shared self categorisation
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we follow who
in group members
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we follow who the most
prototypic in group members
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so self-categorisation theory says collective behavoiur happens how
self-stereotyping
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what is another name for self-stereotyping
depersonalization
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what is self stereotyping/depersonalisation
applying group characteristics to yourself
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however, it is not __________ but __________
over simplification, meaning-seeking
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what can also see yourself as _________ with others
interchangeable
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what riot was studied for collective behaviour
st pauls
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what were the 4 themes found in themetic analysis of it
st pauls location, desire for freedom, targets of attack (not locals, not passers by, not firetrucks), history of antagonism with police, identity (old rastafarians)
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what are some implications of self cat
mental health
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