Psych 350 1st Edition Lecture 16Outline of Last Lecture I. Culture and Social LoafingII. Group Performance- type of taskIII. Group PolarizationOutline of Current Lecture I. GroupthinkII. Social DilemmasIII. Resource DilemmasIV. DeindividuationV. IndividuationCurrent LectureI. Groupthink a) Excessive tendency to seek agreement among group members b) Interferes with good decision-making c) Challenger Disaster – 1986 (space shuttle blowing up) d) Irvin Janis Group Cohesiveness Isolation, Stress, Budgetary Factors e) Study Figure 8.5 in textbook II. Social Dilemmas a) Situations in which a self-interested choice by each individual creates the worst outcomefor the group EX: being arrested Figure 8.8: The Prisoner’s Dilemma - Wanting to turn one of the prisoners against each other III. Resource Dilemmasa) Commons dilemma (“take-some dilemma”)b) Public Goods Dilemma Individuals expected to contribute to a common pool IV. Deindividuationa) Vancouver Riot, Halloween These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.b) The loss of a person’s sense of individuality and the reduction of normal constraints against deviant behavior Occurs only in the presence of a group V. Individuation a) Highlighting the separateness of individuals reduces deviant
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