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Conformity and Obedience 1. What is a group? How might an individual's behaviour be affected by a group? Explain, giving examples, the concept of Groupthink. A group is a collection of individual's who gather together, groups are formed in various ways, for example socially between friends a group can be formed but also in the workplace where people are forced together to form a group. These are classed in two categories formal and informal, formal groups are created to achieve specific organisational objectives and are concerned with the co-ordination of work activities. Informal are based on more personal relationships and agreement of group members than on a defined role relationships. (P469, Mullins, 2002) An individual's behaviour can be greatly affected when part of a group, when we are part of a group we generally conform with other members of the group, conformity can be defined in many ways one definition from Zimbardo...

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