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| The process by which the presence of others can facilitate behaviour. |
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ZAJONC
Performance depends on the subjective difficulty of a task.
Presence of others strengthens the most dominant response. |
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Mere exposure
Evaluation apprehension
Distraction
Self-awareness: discrepancies between ideal/actual performance.
People feel overloaded so don't attend to important cues |
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| Classification Of Group Tasks |
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Divisible vs Unitary
Maximising vs Optimising
Additive: sum of effort
Conjuctive: weakest member
Compensatory: average of effort
Discretionary: group decision. |
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| Tendency for people's performance to decrease in a group when they are not individually responsible for their actions. |
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| As group size increases, individual effort decreases |
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| Loss of motivation in the presence of others |
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If no matching standard
Sucker effect: if belief others loaf |
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| Difference between facilitation/loafing |
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| In loafing individual effort is not evaluated. |
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| Tendency to abandon normal constraints on behaviour and lose a sense of individuality and responsibility. |
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| Features of the environment that distract from self. |
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| Social Identity model of Deindividuation Effects (SIDE) |
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| Deindividualisation due to increased group awareness (norms) rather than a loss of individual focus. |
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Group interaction increases initial leanings of group members.
Likely to interact with similar others
Can be explained by normative and informational influences and conformity. |
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| Way of thinking when group cohesion is prioritised over the right decision or alternatives |
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Impartiality
Welcoming criticism
Dividing into subgroups then bring back together- allows dissent and prevents conformity/illusions of unanimity. |
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| Contingency Theory of Interaction |
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TASK leaders: better in low/high control groups
RELATIONSHIP leaders: better in moderate control groups |
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