VCE Psychology U2 AOS1 2023-27

a collection of people in one location who have no obvious social structure or organisation, and who have minimal shared purpose

• Aggregation

• Group

• Culture

• Role

when dissention from the group is supported by at least one other person, conformity drops sharply

• Ally effect

• Conformity

• Deindividuation

• Social loafing

power through control over punishments or other force

• Coercive power

• Social power

• Referent power

• Reward power

a community that prioritizes the group over the individual, emphasize attributes like cohesion, duty, achievement of group goals, interdependence and conflict avoidance

• Collectivist culture

• Individualist culture

• Social loafing

• Groupthink

the tendency to adjust one's thoughts, feelings or behaviour so that they become more consistent with those of others or with accepted standards about how a person should behave in certain situations (i.e. social norms)

• Conformity

• Normative influence

• Group polarisation

• Obedience

when there is compliance with the orders of an authority that results in a positive outcome

• Constructive obedience

• Destructive obedience

• Social loafing

• Conformity

the way of life of a particular community or group that sets it apart from other communities and groups

• Culture

• Groupthink

• Group polarisation

• Aggregation

reduced self-awareness, inhibition, feelings of personal responsibility and inner restraint that can occur when in a group or crowd

• Deindividuation

• Destructive obedience

• Collectivist culture

• Social loafing

when there is compliance with the orders of an authority that results in a negative outcome

• Destructive obedience

• Constructive obedience

• Individualist culture

• Deindividuation

power through superior abilities and/or knowledge

• Expert power

• Legitimate power

• Referent power

• Status