Which group members tend to have the most power and influence over the group?
Highly Prototypical Members
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What process describes painful or embarrassing procedures that confirm group roles and membership?
Hazing/ Initiation Rites
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What is Social Compensation?
The group task and task at hand is perceived to be important, and the subsequent outcome is increased motivation and effort as a proxy for the anticipated social loafing of others.
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What is Coordination Loss?
Input from more influential group members drowns the input of others which leads to a loss of motivation and output from said members.
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What is Social Loafing?
The tendency for people to put in less effort in group situations.
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Cohesive groups tend to...?
Exert more power over members & have committed members.
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Name the 5 concepts that seek to explain the drive to gain group membership.
Common identity, Social ostracism/loneliness, Uncertainty Identity Theory, Need to belong.
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Roles can be both...?
Implicit and Explicit
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Roles tend to exist for the what of the group?
Benefit
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According to the concept of social facilitation, tasks on which we are highly skilled and mere presence of others will lead to what?
Facilitation in performance
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According to the concept of social facilitation, tasks on which we are poorly and mere presence of others will lead to what?
Inhibition of performance
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Explain Self Discrepancy Theory.
Self awareness leads to comparison between the actual and ideal self, and a subsequent motivation to bring the actual self into alignment with the ideal self.
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Explain Drive Theory.
Zajonc believed that the physical presence of others leads to physiological arousal and a subsequent effect on performance.
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Explain Evaluation Apprehension.
Cottrell believed that the fear of negative evaluation explained the effect of presence of others of performance.
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Why is there a general avoidance of low status roles?
They can ultimate lead to altered self perception; how others treat us tends to alter the way we see ourselves. Therefore, low status= low self esteem/ potentially negative self perception.
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What is Entatitivity?
The extent by which 'groupyness' can be defined using the Taxonomy of Entatitivity.
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