What Is a Management Information System (MIS)? Your Career Guide
January 14, 2025
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This course is part of Discover Yourself, Build Relationships, and Navigate Groups Specialization
Instructor: Kyle Smith
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We are all members of a variety of groups. In a typical week, you may collaborate in a team of coworkers, eat lunch with your friends, gather with family and friends for a celebration, watch your children play after-school sports with other parents, read and comment on political news and opinion pieces on social media, or participate in an online support group.
In this course, you will learn about the ways groups can affect your thoughts, behaviors, and the communities to which you belong. You will explore topics in social facilitation, social loafing, deindividuation, group conformity, the bystander effect, groupthink, and group polarization. As one outcome of this course, you will learn about the processes and consequences of these group dynamics, both good and bad, and ways to identify and manage their effects.
This module introduces you to your PsycLearn Essentials course. Find out what’s included in this course and how to navigate the modules and lessons. You’ll also learn valuable study tips for successful learning.
1 video7 readings
Groups affect our thoughts and behaviors on a daily basis. In this course we discuss several group effects: social facilitation, social loafing, deindividuation, conformity, the bystander effect, group polarization, and groupthink.
2 videos3 readings2 assignments
This module examines how the behavior of individuals changes in groups through the processes of social facilitation, social loafing, and deindividuation. You will learn about the conditions and consequences of these processes, and how your own behavior may be a result of these group influences.
6 videos5 readings4 assignments
This module will explore conformity, a phenomenon that can occur when people seek to fulfill their need for affiliation by joining groups, and the bystander effect, a phenomenon in which people in groups fail to offer needed help in emergencies.
2 readings3 assignments
Group polarization and groupthink are two potential pitfalls of group decision making. Group polarization is the tendency for members of a group discussing an issue to move toward a more extreme version of the position they held before the discussion began. Groupthink occurs when the desire to maintain group cohesiveness causes group members to exert pressure on other group members to reach an agreement, without critically evaluating the quality of the decision.
4 videos7 readings3 assignments
Groups can influence us in major and minor ways. In this module, we examined the effects groups can have on our thoughts and behaviors. The effects can be positive or negative. And the effects can be on events that happen on a daily basis or just once in a lifetime.
16 readings8 assignments
This module contains a cumulative quiz.
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This module contains a glossary, course references, and a list of contributors to the course.
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This module provides a variety of information and tools from the American Psychological Association (APA) that will help inspire you as you complete your coursework and plan your career goals. Explore APA resources on various psychological issues and scholarly research and writing; a list of sites providing valuable resources on diversity, equity, and inclusion in psychology education and in the professional community; resources on a career in psychology; and links to career opportunities at the APA.
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APA is the leading scientific and professional organization representing psychology in the United States, with more than 146,000 researchers, educators, clinicians, consultants, and students as its members. Its mission is to promote the advancement, communication, and application of psychological science and knowledge to benefit society and improve lives.
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