Social Psych Chapters 8 and 10

Vocab for exam 3

Social Facilitation

The strengthening of likely responses in front of others

Evaluation Apprehension

Concern for how others evaluate us

Social Loafing

People will give less effort when in a group

Free Riders

People benefiting from the group and they give little in return

Deindividuation

Loss of self-awareness/evaluation apprehension in a group setting

Group Polarization

Strengthening of the members’ average tendency

Groupthink

A cohesive group isolated from other viewpoints that follows the dominant thought from a leader

Task Leadership

Organizes work, sets standards, and focuses on goals

Social Leadership

Builds teamwork, mediates conflict, and offers support

Aggression

Behavior intending to hurt someone physically or mentally

Frustration-aggression Theory

Frustration triggers a readiness to be aggressive

Displacement

Our aggression is redirected towards a target other than the source of frustration

Relative Deprivation

The perception that one is less well off than others