The Five Different Types Of Group Influences In Social Psychology

According to author David Myers in the Social Psychology textbook, information was shared on five different types of group influences. The five different types of group influences were social facilitation, social loafing, deindividuation, group polarization, and groupthink. Within social facilitation, two meanings were produced, the original and current meanings. Next, I’ve added David Myers definitions of the group influences, described the different types of group influences, and included my life experiences.

The original meaning of social facilitation is the tendency of people to perform simple and well-learned tasks better when others are present. While the current meaning is the strengthening of dominant (prevalent, likely) responses in the presence of others. Describing social facilitation, social facilitation, under the original meaning, is when individuals who are confident in a task does a better job at performing while in others present of others than if they were not. For example, when an individual has rehearsed a speech and feel that a great job will be done, the individual would want to present that speech before an audience knowing that a great job will be done, boosting an individual’s confidence level. Under the current meaning, social facilitation can be described as an individual doing well in the presence of others when others are involved too. For example, an individual may be running in a race while in the presence of others and

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