1. explore scholarly research on the following concepts:
   1. The social facilitation effect
   2. Social loafing
   3. Deindividuation
   4. Group polarization
   5. Groupthink

Step 2:

In your initial post, thoroughly discuss the following:

1. Based on your research,choose at least two of the concepts listed aboveand discuss how they could IMPAIR performance on a grouptask(identify a grouptask/activity and apply your discussion to that task). Here's an example:Social loafing is a common occurrancein academic group work. When students are assigned a group project, there may be one or more social loafers in the group who do not complete their "fair share" of the work. This happens because people who are part of a group feel slightly less responsible for the outcome and therefore don't work as hard as they would if they were completing a project alone. When this happens, other group members pick up the slack left by the social loafers. Ultimately, this can impair group performance because...(explain how social loafing impairs group performance using the information from your research and your textbook).Remember- group work doesn't always occur in an academic setting. We work together in groups at our jobs, in our homes, and in social settings.
2. Next, discuss at least two ways that working in a group can ENHANCE performance on the same task you identified above.
3. Your discussion must be based on information from the scholarly sources you found through the FTCC Library. However, you may add anecdotal information from your own life to justify your position.