Two or more people who share a common definition and evaluation of themselves and behave in accordance with such a definition.
Group (p. 276)
Entitativity (p. 276)
Common bond (p. 277)
Aggregates (p. 277)
Dynamic relationship between the group and its members that describes the passage of members through a group in terms of commitment and of changing roles.
Group socialisation (p. 296)
Role transition (p. 297)
Group cohesiveness (p. 293)
Group effects (p. 278)
What are the three basic processes of group socialisation?
Evaluation (p. 297)
Commitment (p. 297)
Cohesiveness (p. 293)
Social attraction (p. 295)
Tuckman’s Five-Stage Developmental Sequence.
Forming
Storming
Norming
Conforming
Performing
Adjourning
Division of a group into different roles that often differ with respect to status and prestige.
Group structure (p. 304)
Expectation status theory (p. 307)
Features of group structures.
Norms (p. 300)
Role (p. 305)
Status (p. 306)
Communication network (p. 308)
Deviants (p. 311)
The property of a group that affectively binds people, as group members, to one another and to the group as a whole, giving the group a sense of solidarity and oneness.
Group task (p. 285)
Attitudinal and behavioural uniformities that define group membership and differentiate between groups.
Stereotype (p. 301)
Frame of reference (p. 302)
Morality (p. 304)
An improvement in the performance of well-learned/ easy tasks and a deterioration in the performance of poorly learned/ difficult tasks in the mere presence of members of the same species.
Social facilitation (p. 279)
Drive theory (p. 279)
Evaluation apprehension model (p. 281)
Social impact (p. 287)
Arousal that motivates performance of habitual behaviour patterns.
Distraction-conflict theory (p. 282)
Drive because people have learned to be apprehensive about being evaluated.
Evaluation apprehension model (p. 282)
Distraction-conflict theory (p. 284)
Drive because people are distracting and produce conflict between attending to the task and to the audience.
A reduction in individual effort when working on a collective task (one in which our outputs are pooled with those of other group members) compared with working either alone or co-actively (our outputs are not pooled).
Social loafing (p. 288)
Free-rider effect (p. 289)
Social compensation (p. 291)
Matching to standard (p. 290)
Gaining the benefits of group membership by avoiding costly obligations of membership and by allowing other members to incur those costs.
Social impact (p. 291)
Increase effort on a collective task to compensate for other group members’ actual, perceived or anticipated lack of effort or ability.
Evaluation apprehension (p. 290)
Getting group members to achieve the group’s goals.
Leadership (p. 322)
Group decisions (p. 322)
Great person theory (p. 324)
Situational perspectives (p. 326)
Leaders who use a style based on giving orders to followers.
Autocratic leaders
Democratic leaders
Laissez-faire leaders
Friendly leaders
Leaders who use a style based on consultation and obtaining agreement and consent from followers.
Distinguished leaders
Leaders who use a style based on disinterest in followers.
Reliable leaders
Explicit or implicit decision-making rules that relate individual opinions to a final group decision.
Social decision making (p. 347)
Situational control (p. 331)
Normative decision theory (p. 333)
Social transition scheme (p. 348)
Types of group decision making.
Unanimity
Majority wins
Truth wins
Two-thirds win
First shift
Overrule
Dictatorship
Uninhabited generation of as many ideas as possible in a group, in order to enhance group creativity.
Brainstorming (p. 348)
Illusion of group effectivity (p. 350)
Group memory (p. 351)
Group think (p. 354)
A mode of thinking in highly cohesive group in which the desire to reach unanimous agreement overrides the motivation to adopt proper rational decision-making procedures.
Group polarisation (p. 356)
Group mind (p. 353)
Tendency for group discussion to produce more extreme group decisions than the mean of members’ pre-discussion opinions, in the direction favoured by the mean.
Social comparison (p. 357)
All group members need to agree on decisions.
Unanimity (p. 348)
Majority wins (p. 348)
First shift (p. 348)
Two-thirds majority (p. 348)
Majority percentage of group agrees on a consensus.
Truth wins (p. 348)
Discussion about solution that can be demonstrated to be correct.
The group ultimately adopts a decision in line with the direction of the first idea in opinion shown by any member of the group.