Exam 1: Group Dynamics

Contestants in a talent show have been asked to type the name "Martin Luther King" as many times as they can in 3 minutes. Based on Zajonc's research on social facilitation-impairment we can expect that the contestants perform ________________ on the typing task when watched by an audience ________ when they type without an audience.

One's status is determined by one's role in an organization.

After a year at college, Taylor considered his dorm roommates as his best friends. He liked the same kind of music, books, clothing, dance as they did, and thought very similarly about politics. He soon lost touch with his old friends from high school. His college roommates became his

Once you assume a role, you are expected to act accordingly - deviations are not approved of.

Explain what a role conflict is and give an example.

Traditional work groups are more productive than pseudogroups.

Roles are always formally assigned to group members.

Norman Triplett's 1898 study is important because it was the first attempt to experimentally study the impact of

High status members of a group tend to

What percentage of the subjects in the role of "teachers" administered the maximum voltage (450 volts) to the learners in Milgram's (1954) famous study on obedience to authority?

Ineffective groups are characterized by one-way communication.

The field of group dynamics came into being primarily to study

Explain the difference between recurring-phase and sequential stage theories.

Triplett's study showed that an audience improved performance on motor performance tasks.

Courtesy, mutual respect and responsibility are all examples of

Explain the relationship among theory, research and practice

Roles and norms are interrelated but different concepts.

Social psychologists subscribing to the group orientation believe that

Muzafer Sherif's (1936) study on the autokinetic effect showed that norms

The study of group dynamics started in the age of the Enlightenment, in the 18th century.