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29 Cards in this Set
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What are the componants of a group?
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Shared Goals, Memberships, Norms, and interaction
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What are the types of groups?
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Primary- family/friends
secondary- dorm mates, work mates |
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What is cohesion?
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The extent to which members remain in a group
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What are the various types of cohesion?
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Social and task
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Groups that are cohesive tend to be:
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More creative, more cooperative, high success and prod. rate, more influence over e/o
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What is goal isomorphism?
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When group goal and ind. goals are the same
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How do you achieve goal isomorphism?
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Recruit similar people
Socialize w/ similar people Training- ind goal = group goal Emphasize group identity |
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What are the types of roles people play in groups?
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leaders, not necissarilly liked, most well liked person-socio-emotional leader = #2
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Which roles do kids play?
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leaders, wannabes, medium, outcasts
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What are status characteristics?
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a social attribute which attitudes or benefits come to be recognized around an individual.
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What are the two types of status characteristics?
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Specific - soc maj
Diffuse- race/gender |
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What is conformity?
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The process by which people's beliefs or behaviors are influenced by others.
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Who studied conformity?
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Solomon Asch
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Why to people conform?
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To be accepted
meet expectation of others to fit in dont want to seem lame they are members of a group |
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how do you increase conformity
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increase size of majority
gender unanimous more likely to persuade commitment to future interaction competence of others attraction of the group |
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where does leaders support come from?
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from lower people
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what is group think
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a mode of thinking in which people engage in deeply involved in a cohesive in-group, when members strive for unanimty instead of realistically apprasing alternative modes of action
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what are 5 things about group think?
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strong leadership, isolation of outside opinion, isolate from outside experts, closer a group, more chosion = less likely to raise questions
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what are 3 indications of group think?
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stereotypes of other leaders,
pressure to conform against other side, mindgaurds |
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what are 3 ways to prevent group think?
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effective alternatives should be examined, members hould discuss ideas w/ tructed outside sources. higher ups should notexpress an opinion when assigning a task
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What are the social processes that contributed to mai lai?
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dehuminization, authorization, rootinization.
d- treat as lesser status r- make things routine auth- not being held accountable, just do it b/c higher up said so |
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what are the types of justice?
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distributive, procedural, interactional
d- fiarness of outcomes equity and equality japanese cartoons p- fairness of procedure fair if everyone thinks they are equal and valued interact- interpersonal treat people more willing to work harder if boss treats you fairly |
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what is intergroup conflict?
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conflict between groups
(organized) nations, poli parties, street gangs, business, teams social categories race religion class sexual orientation |
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whats causes intergroup conflict
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contradicting values/beliefs
-ethnocentriusm threat lack of rules/standards social identity (in group/out) -blurs in group, trench out group |
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why does intergroup conflict persist?
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biased perceptions
existance of an outgroup group stereotypes unltimate attribution error- everything they do reflects them directly |
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what is intragroup conflict
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conflict within a group
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how do in groups win conflicts?
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inrease cohesion w/ limits
group leaders become militant change the norms/rules |
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what causes intragroup conflict?
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unequal share of the cost, rallocate resources
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how do you resolve intragroup/intergroup conflict?
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find commen cause
intergroup contact (ambassador,DW,DCmarried) Equal status contact 3rd party mediation |
