Exam 8: Group Processes

Assume that you are playing pool at the student union when a group of people surround the table to watch you play.If you are _______ player,you would play _______ because of the arousing effects of their presence.

The Wednesday Night Social Club has several couples that have been with the group for more than a decade.They all get along well and all of the members like each other.They meet every week for a different social activity often at each other's homes.Frequent activities include potluck and card games.Two new couples in the same age group who have moved into the neighbourhood have attended recently.This group shows evidence of

All other things being equal,_______ from _______ cultures would be most likely to engage in social loafing.

According to a social comparison interpretation,group polarization tends to occur because individuals can present themselves in a more _______ light by taking slightly more _______ positions than the norm of the group.

Social facilitation is most likely to occur when

According to the definition presented in the text,which of the following is an example of social facilitation?

Roy Baumeister and Mark Leary (1995)argue that the need to belong to groups is present in all societies because

Shared group expectations about how particular group members are expected to behave are called

A(n)_______ leader is more concerned with getting the job done than with the feelings of and relationships between workers.

Compare the great person theory of leadership with Fred Fiedler's (1967,1978)contingency theory of leadership.With which theory would a social psychologist be most likely to agree?

Most social psychologists agree that which of the following are two causes of deindividuation?

Consider the following anti-social acts: European soccer fans sometimes attack and bludgeon players and other fans,in the U.S.mobs of whites would lynch African-Americans,and in Canada a young man was beaten to death by a group of disguised youths.What do these situations have in common?

Joint class projects,voting in elections,and singing in unison are all examples of group activities that are likely to be affected by

According to your textbook,all of the following are true with respect to women and leadership EXCEPT

The Prisoner's Dilemma game is an excellent vehicle for studying social conflicts in the laboratory because

According to Robert Zajonc's (1969,1980)social facilitation theory,would you play pool better alone or when others are observing you? Explain your answer.

Which of the following statements is FALSE concerning the function of group membership?

_______ is the key to social facilitation effects,whereas _______ is the key to social loafing effects.

Morton Deutsch and Robert Krauss (1960,1962)found that cooperation between adversaries is most likely to occur when

When social psychologists define a group as a collection of interdependent people,they mean that