do now 1.update agenda: prepare for quiz on #18 & #19 (conformity & group influence)...
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Do Now
1. Update agenda: • Prepare for Quiz on #18 & #19 (Conformity &
Group Influence)
2. Update TOC.• 4/27-28 Group Influence #19
3. Complete today’s Do Now Slip with a small group of 3-4 OR independently.
Straight to your seats.Materials out.
Take out What is Conformity?
Use your own words to express the point that Kipling makes in
this quote:
Tell why you think someone would express this message:
Agree or disagree with Milgrim’s statement and use details to defend
your opinion.
“…often it is not so much the kind
of person a man is as the kind of
situation in which he finds himself that determines how he will act."
–Stanley Milgram
Types of Conformity
• Describe a situation in which a person might use normative conformity.
• Describe a situation in which a person might use informational conformity.
• Describe a situation in which a person might use a compliance technique to conform.
• Describe a situation in which a person might use identification conformity.
Likelihood of Conformity
• Tell about two factors that increase the likelihood that a person will conform.
• Tell about two factors that decrease the likelihood that a person will conform.
CNs: Group Influence
• OBJECTIVE: Summarize four effects that groups have on individual thinking and behavior by taking and finalizing Cornell Notes.
Groups
A GROUP IS…
2+ people who interact multiple times, influence each other, and think of
themselves as “us”
I. Social Facilitation Effect
Simple Tasks
• People perform familiar tasks better when they are in the presence of other people.
Difficult Tasks
• Performing new or difficult tasks is made more difficult when other people are present.
TRIPLET’S RESEARCH: Social Facilitation Effect
• His theory: Competition enhances performance
• 40 children wind a fishing reel. • Some reeled it alone, while
others were reeled it in direct competition against another child.
• Participants reeling in competition reeled faster than those who had reeled alone.• Triplett concluded that working
in teams improves performance.
• Perhaps due to the competition, the audience factor or the fear of looking lazy
ALLPORT’S RESEARCH: Social Facilitation EffectParticipants work on activities: multiplication, vowel
cancellation, and generating counter-arguments to ancient philosophers’ theories.
Group enhanced performance on some tasks.More counter arguments were made in the group setting but the quality of the arguments was low compared to
that of those who were working alone.
NOTICE:Everyone contributes but at a lesser quality.
II. Social Loafing
The tendency for people in a group to put less effort
into a shared task
More people involved in the group task each person
thinks they can put in a little less effort, thinking that
others will make up for their lack of effort.
How does the overall task then appear?
NOTICE:Everyone contributes but at a lesser quantity which may result in less quality
or no completion.
III. Group Think
Janus (1972)
"a deterioration of mental efficiency, reality testing, and moral judgment that
results from in-group pressures."
People overvalue cohesiveness of the group
and lose their ability to think independently and
make good, sound judgments.
Groupthink
• overestimating the in group we are in
• group members want to be in agreement, which results in closed-mindedness
• leads to decisions that are not always good
• Examples: • Riots & Mob Mentality• Mass Suicide• Heaven's Gate• In group:
• Agreements:
• Decisions:
IV. De-individuationANONYMITY + DIFFUSED RESPONSIBILY + GROUP SIZE
People become less of an individual and more anonymous.
They feel less responsible for their actions.
Loss of some self-awareness and self-restraint when in groups.
Larger groups lead to more de-individuation.
Diener et al gave trick-or-treaters the opportunity steal candy. When in groups and sure of their anonymity, the
stealing went up three times.
Connect and Recapitulate
• When have you experienced or witnessed each of the effects that groups have on the individual?
• Track your thoughts and recollections in the right margin.
• Ex: Social Facilitation Effect…Playing California Speed- I lost once and then three more times in a row. Once I figured out how to play and won once, then I was able to tie overall and won a final time.
Review by Finalizing Your Notes
• Highlight key concepts
• Create HLQs in the left margin
• Develop a strong summary that captures each concept.• Overall, groups make
people…
• Groups lead to…