Exam 12: Groups

Women typically exhibit more of a transformational style of leadership than do men.

Why do scientists perform better when their collaborators span a wide range of scientific disciplines (Pelz, 1956)?

What is a dynamical system and what is the central lesson that has been produced by research on dynamical systems?

The text reports that leaders often succeed because they

What are the advantages and the disadvantages of having diversity in a group?

What is social loafing? Give two examples. Why does social loafing occur, and how can social loafing be reduced?

Groups make riskier decisions following group discussion than they would have prior to group discussion.

What is social facilitation? Provide an example.

Joey is hoping to get an "A" in his social psychology class, but is concerned about his low grade on the first exam. What will make it more likely that Joey will join a study group with Rachel and Monica?

Roles, status hierarchy, and a communication network are components of

In the Phi Upsilon Nu sorority at Upstate University, sisters expect each other to party hard on the weekends, to get multiple navel piercing, and to wear the color pink. This set of shared expectations of how group members ought to behave is called

The two types of cohesiveness described in the textbook are

Imagine that you are the CEO and respected leader of a large, successful firm. You want your employees to be able to discover and reject poor ideas during an important meeting. Because you know social psychology, you decide to

Dave is working on a problem solving task with five other students from his class. Most of the members on this team are very sociable and they get along very well. They are considering including a new person, Steve, on their team. Steve, although conscientious, is not very sociable. Using your knowledge about social groups, what would you advise this team?

Imagine a group of moderately pro-feminist women having a discussion about feminism. Can you predict the typical attitude change (if any) of these women after the discussion?

What is deindividuation? Describe the two ways in which groups can deindividuate members, and a simple way to reindividuate members that is discussed in the textbook.

According to research (Baltes et al., 2002), under which of the following conditions is computer-mediated discussion (such as email or instant messaging) as effective as face to face discussion?

Imagine you are required to give a presentation to your social psychology class on social facilitation, with a partner. You are quite comfortable speaking in front of class, whereas your partner has little practice and is very anxious about it. The two of you practice several times in an empty room._________________During the actual presentation, you are likely to perform_________________than during the practice, and your partner is likely to perform_________________than during the practice.

Early research on group decision making seemed to demonstrate that groups tended to make decisions than individuals.

Describe the qualities of a transformational leader.