Exam 8: People in Groups

Chandler is a new member of the drama society at University. However, all members must go through a mysterious initiation process before they can attain full member status, which Chandler has not yet completed. At the moment, Chandler is a ________ of the drama society.

Suppose that, in an exercise, your psychology class had to think of as many household items as they could that started with the letter 'W'. One half of the class worked as individuals and the other half as an interacting group. If the group output was poorer than the sum of the individuals, you would have a fairly clear example of:

According to Steiner's taxonomy of group tasks, a disjunctive task is one where:

The advantage(s) of Hogg's (1993) model of personal versus social attraction over the traditional model is:

Ebenezer is self-employed, lives in his mother's house, and somehow manages to avoid paying any form of tax. He swans off for summer holidays in the national parks, uses public toilets (but only the free ones), and has even managed to obtain free medical insurance. Ebenezer is a(n):

Triplett carried out an early study of competition in children. He found that:

Which of the following is the best example of a group?

According to Cottrell's (1972) evaluation apprehension model, people act differently when others are close by because they are:

Which of the following group characteristics helps to reduce social loafing?

According to Hogg and his colleagues, people join groups to:

The ________ view claims that people in groups are influenced by unique social processes. In contrast, the ________ view maintains that people in groups act similarly as when they are in pairs, or even alone.

The term 'group cohesiveness':

According to Hogg (1993), when a group member's liking for another member is determined by how prototypical that person is with respect to the group, we have evidence of:

The division of a group into different roles that often differ with respect to status and prestige is referred to as:

Group norms:

Differences between various groups are defined by:

In Claire's family no one wears shoes in the house. Claire is curious why this is so and thought she might find out by means of ethnomethodology. Therefore she:

Becoming more aware of oneself can occur by:

The new fly-catching club elects Wilberforce, a hard-working but now retired sociology professor, as their first president. Marina, a sensible and experienced fly-catcher, who has always been unemployed, would have liked that job but knew that she had little chance. The members' decision was probably a case of:

An 'audience effect' is: