Summary
Contents
Social Psychology provides student readers with essential help with all aspects of their first course in social psychology, including advice on revising for exams, preparing and writing course assessment materials, and enhancing and progressing their knowledge and skills in line with course requirements on a social psychology course.
Group Processes
Group Processes
Core Areas
- Distraction conflict
- Drive theory of social facilitation
- Evaluation apprehension
- Group socialisation
- Group structure
- Ringelmann effect
- Social cohesion/interpersonal interdependence model
- Social comparison theory
- Social facilitation
- Social impact
- Social loafing
- Task taxonomy
- Theory of group cohesiveness
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this chapter you should be able to:
- define key terms;
- acknowledge the work of key thinkers in this area;
- understand the effect on performance of group size including explanations such as social loafing, social impact and social comparison;
- examine theories on group cohesiveness;
- look ...