Chapter 8: Social Psychology Vocabulary
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Group | two or more people who, for longer than a few moments interact with and influence one another and perceive on another as "us." |
| Co-actors | go-participants working individually on a noncompetitive activity. |
| Social facilitation | (1) original meaning: the tendency of people to perform simple or well-learned tasks better when others are present. (2) Current meaning: the strengthening of dominant (prevalent, likely) responses in the presence of others. |
| Evaluation apprehension | concern for how others are evaluating us. |
| Social loafing | the tendency for people to exert less effort when they pool their efforts toward a common goal than when they are individually accountable. |
| Free riders | people who benefit from the group but give little in return. |
| Deindividuation | loss of self-awareness and evaluation apprehension; occurs in group situations that foster responsiveness to group norms, good or bad. |
| Group polarization | group-produced enhancement of members' preexisting tendencies; a strengthening of the members' average tendency, not a split within the group. |
| Social comparison | evaluating one's opinions and abilities by comparing oneself to others. |
| Pluralistic ignorance | a false impression of what most other people are thinking or feeling, or how they are responding. |
| Groupthink | "the mode of thinking that persons engage in when concurrence-seeking becomes so dominant in a cohesive in-group that it tends to override realistic appraisal of alternative courses of action."-Irving Janis (1971). |
| Leadership | the process by which certain group members motivate and guide the group. |
| Task leadership | leadership that organizes work, sets standards, and focuses on goals. |
| Social leadership | leadership that builds teamwork, mediate conflict, and offers support. |
| Transformational leadership | leadership that, enabled by a leader's vision and inspiration, exerts significance influence. |
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