Survivor Episode 1: Blood VS Water

The first episode of survivor was a bit intense. As everyone arrived to Nicaragua, either with a family member or a lover, the same night they were seperated and divided into two tribes, either blue and orange teams . Right after the seperation and the creation of the two tribes, chapter 2 of group development took place. Right away the host of the show Jeff, explained the tribe goals and the norms. Even though each member are seperated from their love ones, they each ahve the same goal and it is to win the competition.

Once the tribes were dismissed Tuckmans group development took place. Right of the bat, forming started to take action. Little by little each memner of the group started to communicate and get to know eachother. In each tribe different diversity, age, and gender took place. In one group there was an older man, Dale, which the rest of the group started to isolate because they saw him as a dad, for being older. It turns out as they were isloating Dale trying to create fire, Dale was working alone and sacrafised his own glasses to create fire for his team that was isloating him. After that the tribe took Dale more into consideration. This shows Dale’s motvation for being part of the tribe, and wanting to participate and have a voice.

In chapter 2 it talks about group goals, group norms and group motvation, and we see this happening through out the show. Once the tribe got comfortable poeple tried to become the leader and boss the rest around. The losing team had to eliminate a team member, and they decided to eliminate Nadiya because she was trying to take over. I think that was a good thing to do , because in a team, or tibe, no one to take over, but yet everyone should work together to win.