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Guess what the fricken audience effect is?
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The impact the presence of others has on your task performance .
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Whats cognitive dissonance?
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An inner conflict between your attitudes / beliefs and your actions or behaviour.
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Cohesiveness
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- A group is emotionally binding it’s group members to the group and creating therefor a sense of unity and oneness.
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Communication network
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- rules in a group that point out how the communication works in a group according to the groups hierarchy.
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Coordination loss
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- Problems with the coordination of the behaviour in a group leads to worse performance. As a group and individually.
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Correspondence bias
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- people have the tendency to look at the behaviour of others as it would directly correspond with a deeper underlying attitude of them.
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Diffuse status characteristics
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- a persons abilities entering a group are not particularly helpful to the group, but are shaped by the outgroup he has been with
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Distraction conflict theory
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- if other humans are in the room it creates a conflict between fulfilling the task you are doing and interacting with the other humans.
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Drive theory
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- A theory from a Mr. Zajonc that states that the presence of others gives us the motivation to act in certain patterns of behaviour when being with others.
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Entitativity
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- property of a group that makes it look like it’s united and coherent and has an own identity.
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Why the heck do we need a long word like Ethnomethodology?
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- Garfinkel’s theory that a groups hidden norms become visible through the violation of those norms.
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Whats the evaluation apprehension model?
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- Evaluation apprehension model argues, that humans have learnt to change their behaviour in the presence of others because they have learnt to be evaluated.
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Is the expectation states theory according to your expectations?
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- The expectation states theory that people get certain roles in groups according to their status and therefor assumed abilities / performances.
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Free rider effect ?
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- enjoying the membership of a group without any costs
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Group
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- two or more persons identifying with the same opinions and beliefs. share a definition or themselves, and act according to that definition .
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Group socialisation
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- dynamic group relationship that describes the process of a member that climbs up a latter of success due to her/ his commitment .
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Group structure
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- dividing a group into different roles with different status and prestige .
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What are initiation rites ?
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- painful / embarrassing rites of marking the downgrade of a group member from one role to another.
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Whats the mere presence?
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- a shitty audience. Only physically present, but not actively responding.
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Norms - are there any?
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- attitudinal and behavioural unity that define the membership of one group and differentiate it to another.
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What is Personal attraction ?
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- liking someone because of your individual sympathy towards that person and because of a relationship to that person.
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A Process loss?
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- the group performance got worse but individual performances stay high.
- inferences about why this loss is there are being made among all the group members.
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The Ringelmann effect ?
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- Mr Ringelman discovered, that ones effort he puts in a group shrinks the bigger the group gets.
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What Roles do we play?
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- different behaviour patterns that differ among the members of group but serve all the group good.
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Schism .- no fantasy language but actually?
- dividing a group into its subgroups again and marking that they all have different ideologies and slightly different norms.
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Ouuu Social attraction ?
- being attracted to someone because he is in the same group as you are and is an ideal prototype of that group.
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Name the different types of leaders that exist ?
- democratic leader - charismatic leadership
- laissez faire leader
- autocratic leader
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What are the big five personality traits ?
- extraversion , surgency, agreeableness , openness to new experiences, conscientiousness, emotional stability
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Contingency theory ? Who needs that?
- theory that states, that the nature of a leadership situation is dependent on the situation the group is in .
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cultural values theory
- people take opinions from their group members over concerning certain society relevant positions / topics and adapt them then to the cultural norm to gain approval.
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Distributive justice
- how fair the outcome of a decision is .
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A Glass Ceiling ? What role does it play here ?
- women cant reach top positions
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Great Person theory- what a creative name
- effective leadership is only possible if the leader has certain characteristics.
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Group mind - inside ADHD ?
- Mc Dounalls theory that the mindset of people changes in a group quality wise .
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Group Polarisation
- the decisions that are made in a group are often more extrem than the mean of the group members in the prediscussion .
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Group value model
- if there is justice in the decision making and the rules in a group, the members feel more valued and identify more with the group.
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Groupthink- do they really?
- presenting unity in the way that a group approaches a decision . The will to be in unity in the decision making overcomes the will of making a normal rational decision.
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Idiosyncrasy credit - what a gross word
- allowing a group leader to act selfish, because the group has achieved a goal.
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Illusion of group effectivity - love it already
- the experience based mindset, that we are better and more effective in a group than alone.
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Leader- behaviour description questionnaire
- a scale that was developed by the Ohio ... Department
| - to do research on leadership behaviour and measuring if there is an initial structure or a considered one.
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Leader categorisation theory
- the schemas we have in our head, that categorize leaders
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Leader member exchange theory
- a theory after which a good leader arises from good relationships and exchange with the group members.
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Path–goal theory
- a theory that focuses on how structuring and considering motivate the members of a group .
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Persuasive arguments theory
- people that get persuaded by new information that add up to the side of the position they initially had get a more extrem opinion.
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Production blocking
- blocking of an individuals creativity and productiveness because of group brainstorming and interruptions and turn taking.
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Recency
- the effect of the order of something you present. The latest is always the most effecting.
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Role congruity theory
- gender gaps in leadership
| - because people have stereotypes concerning women in leading positions --> women are poor leader.
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Situational control
- Fielder classified tasks in order to see how much control a certain task required .
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Social decisions schemes
- implicit of explicit rules that demonstrate the process from an individuals opinion to the decision of a group.
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Social dilemma
- short term personal gain>< long-term group gain
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Least-preferred co-worker (LPC) scale
- Fielders tricky scale of measuring the leadership style according to how much his / her least preferred co- worker him or her likes.
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Multifactor leadership questionnaire
- most common used scale which measures transactional and transformational leadership.
- -> leadership that is dominant and doing a lot, and leadership that is rather nondominant.
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normative decision theory
- in the setting of decision making the leader tries out different leading styles.
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Social identity theory of leadership
- leadership develops out of given personality traits .
| - An explanation of why more prototypical leaders are better than less prototypical
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Social transition scheme
- on the way to a group decision , the opinions of group members get unified.
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Status characteristics theory
= expectations states theory
| the ones that have the right characteristics and a certain status in society get the same status in a group.
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Stereotype threat
- we will be judged and threatened according to the stereotypes that have been formed about us
- we will also act just like the stereotype predicts.
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Transactional leadership
- A style of leadership that focuses on the exchange of resources between leader and group member.
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Transactive memory
- group members share a memory on who in the group knows what and remembers what.
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vertical dyad linkage (vDL) model
- an early theory describing the leader member relationship
- it contains two ways which are distinguished from each other . the relation between the leader and a member can either be like with him and an ingroup member or with the leader and an outgroup member.
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Relational model of authority in groups
- Tylers approach to how effective authority really is in the face of fairness and justice in a group.
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What are the seven definitions of David and Frank Johnson?
1 a collection of individuals who are interacting with one another;
2 a social unit of two or more individuals who perceive themselves as belonging to a group;
3 a collection of individuals who are interdependent;
4 a collection of individuals who join together to achieve a goal;
5 a collection of individuals who are trying to satisfy a need through their joint association;
6 a collection of individuals whose interactions are structured by a set of roles and norms;
7 a collection of individuals who influence each other.
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Least preferred co worker scale
- asking the leader on how he likes the co worker
- if he appreciates his work- he scores high which means he is relationship oriented
- if he scores low he is more task oriented
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Individualistic def group
| Collectivistic definition
- ind. people behave as they would do on their own
| - col. there are specific social processes we underlie when being in a group.
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Common bond
| Common identity groups
- common bond --> members are very good with each other
| - common identity group--> members connect to the group itself and to the identity that comes with it .
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Drive theory --> habitual patterns itensify in front of an audience
- when we have to perform infront of others we tend to intensify the patterns we already have
- -> if we play a song well we play it even better in public, but mistakes become also worse.
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Social facilitation
- the effect an audience has on your performance
- -> good - better
- -> bad - worse
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Attentional consequences
- thinks that take a lot of attention from us , are usually really distracting
- things that don't take a lot of attention can be done while we are doing something else.
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Reasons for loafing
- apprehension evaluation
- matching standard
- output equity
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Diffused expectation model<> expectations state theory
- expectation state theory: we expect of a member of a group to act according to his/ her role.
- diffused expectation model: we think of someone that has a certain status in society to take this status in the group as well although we know nothing about his abilities.
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Function of roles in a group
- to create a communication network - set rules on how things are communicated in a group
- to be able to identify with the group- have a definition of one self
- how information is stored.
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Core members
| Marginal members
- Core member are the ones putting the most effort and commitment into a group.
- marginal members are the ones rather free riding and putting a minimal amount of work in their membership.
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Whats the difference between a subgroup and a Schism?
- Subgroup emerges naturally and not due to different ideologies / norms. Fe. PBL is a subgroup to the Psychology Students
- Schism is a intentionally created subgroup due to different ideologies , opinions on things.
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How do we deviate from a group ?
- subjective group dynamics
- -> if we deviate towards another group we are treated worse af if we would be treated when just deviating from the group in a so far undefined direction.
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Aspects that define whether someone is a leader is or not
- Personality type ( Big five)
- Social identity theory
- correspondence bias
- Role congruity model - glass ceiling, gender gap
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Explained variation is important in checking whether the correlation is significant
- explained variation = r squared
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Dark triad
---> being a great leader by being a manipulativ narcistic and deceiving leader in order to lead.
( Machiavellianism, Narcissism , Manipulation)
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What does Fiedlers measurement concerning leadership say about leaders and situational control or leaders without situational control?
- a high LPC = socioemotional leadership
- a low LPC = task oriented leadership
- in the extremes a task oriented leader is the calmer head.
- in between the extremes it goes better with a relationship oriented leader
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Idiosyncrasy credit
--> getting credit for achieving goals
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Key components of transformational leadership
- individualised consideration- leaving space for your followers to consider themselves what would be the best decision.
- intellectual stimulation: giving challenging intellectual stimulation
- charismatic / inspiring leadership .
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Leader categorization theory
--> we prefer a leader that fits to our schemas
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Decision making in groups
- task categorisation into
- judgemental tasks --> majority wins rule
- intellective tasks --> truth wins rule
- Group polarisation is a problem when it comes to decision making in a group . = social transition scheme
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Intergroup leadership
- the group is defined as being different to another group
| - challenge is to create a strong unity in your group so that it can differentiate itself clearly from other groups.
