Exam 12: Groups

According to the text, holding steadily to their views, appearing to have little personal stake in an issue, and having an audience that wants to make an accurate decision contribute to

Name and describe the two personality characteristics mentioned in the book that are related to the desire to become a leader.

Briefly describe Ringlemann's experiment involving pulling carts and his discovery of an important element of group processes. Name and define this process.

Which of the following characteristics of Hillary Rodham Clinton goes AGAINST the general rule of leadership?

Imagine you are a manager and have new employees as well as seasoned employees. According to your text, you should provide_________________for new workers while providing for expert workers.

Uncertain circumstances motivate people to join groups in order to

According to research on group decision making, groups may be more susceptible to groupthink when their leaders

Imagine you are the manager of a new work team that has been inefficient in the past, largely because of a lack of group structure. Name and describe three key features of group structure that you could impose on the group in order to remedy this problem.

Lisa works on a team where all of the members are highly sociable. Her team should do particularly well on_________________tasks, but poorly on_________________tasks.

According to research on deindividuation, when people are in a group they are more likely to

Interpersonal cohesiveness refers to whether or not the group gets along with one another.

People are more likely to join performance groups when

According to your text, heterogeneous groups of people seem to do better on tasks requiring , whereas diversity in experience can hurt the performance of groups when success is determined by_________________.

Which of the following decreases the power of jurors holding minority views in the courtroom?

Factors that increase the extent to which a collection of individuals is "group-like" include all of the following EXCEPT

What are the properties of real groups? Define each of these properties. What does it mean to say that groups are more or less "grouplike?"

In one of the earliest social psychological experiments, Triplett (1897-1898) found that

Name and describe two of the reasons why people join groups, according to the textbook.

Anna is working on a team with people from 4 different countries. Which of the following is likely to initially occur in this group?

Groups become deindividuated by