Exam 8: Group Processes

A leadership style that is warm,helpful,kind,and concerned with the welfare of others is ________,while a leadership style that is assertive,controlling,independent,dominant and self-confident is ________.

Which of the following is the important lesson to be learned from Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Experiment in which university students played the roles of guards and prisoners.

In the Stanford Prison Study conducted by Philip Zimbardo and his colleagues (1973),guards became increasingly sadistic and prisoners became increasingly submissive and withdrawn,all in under a week.Results of this (aborted)study suggest that

In order to predict whether the presence of others will help or hinder performance,one needs two pieces of information,whether _______ and whether _______.

The leader who would be most effective is one who

Which of the following has NOT been identified as a common characteristic of leaders,according to research presented in the text?

When participants in the Trucking Game were allowed to communicate with one another (Deutsch & Krauss,1962),such communication seldom ensured cooperation.Why?

The key to success in the Prisoner's Dilemma game is to

The presence of others will facilitate performance for

Josh is the president of his college residence hall and he is therefore expected to act in a respectable,dignified manner when he attends campus functions.What social psychological phenomenon does this illustrate?

When Jeffrey Jackson and Kip Williams (1985)had participants solve either simple or difficult mazes,those who believed that their scores would be averaged with another person's performed better on difficult mazes than on simple mazes.These finding suggest that social loafing

The term for group qualities that promote liking between members and bind members together is

What is a group and what distinguishes it from a collection of people occupying the same space?

According to former Canadian Prime Minister Kim Campbell,women seeking leadership roles may find themselves in a lose-lose situation.Explain.

According to the authors of your text book,one cost of roles is that individuals can lose their personal identities as individuals.A second cost is that

One reason that deindividuation often leads to impulsive or destructive behaviours is that the presence of many other people can reduce self-awareness,thus making people

Research on social dilemmas by Kiyonari and Barclay (2008)found that cooperators were ____________________ free loaders.

Social loafing is most likely to occur when

Dozens of social psychological experiments on the topic of social facilitation have employed everything from people to birds,ants,and cockroaches.Which of the following is the one consistent finding has emerged from these many studies?

New Ph.D.'s who apply for jobs often report that they give better job talks in front of the hiring committee members whom they may never see again than they do during dress rehearsals for their supportive colleagues and professors before they leave for their interviews.These reports provide anecdotal evidence that