Exam 14: Groups

According to social facilitation theory, task performance is sometimes enhanced by the presence of others and sometimes hurt by the presence of others.Generally speaking, this depends upon ____.

Which of the following is the MOST accurate summary of social facilitation theory?

Which quality is characteristic of managers who lead companies to lasting success?

Which of the following did your text present as an example of a toxic leader?

When people are in a group situation in which they feel deindividuated, they are MOST likely to behave badly when ____.

Research on diversity in groups indicates that ____.

Leaders that focus on boosting morale, taking care of group members, and promoting group spirit are ____.

The term 'free rider problem' is sometimes used to refer to ____.

Even though committees consist of people who bring different types of knowledge to a collaborative group setting, they are often relatively ineffective in terms of making good use of all of their shared information.In large part, this seems to be because ____.

People who are high in power tend to ____.

The text quotes Stanislaus Lezczynski, King of Poland, who stated that 'no snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible', to capture the notion of ____.

Decisions that are made by committee tend to be less-than-optimal.This is mostly because such decisions ____.

Identify and briefly describe at least three of the symptoms of groupthink (i.e., three of the group features and/or situational features that indicate that a group is suffering from groupthink).

In his early social psychological research regarding bicyclists and racing performance, Norman Triplett's initial interpretation of his finding was that the presence of others stimulated a ____.

Nkanyisa is in a research group with the head of the department.The team members are all good friends, and the department head is well-liked and popular.Nkanyisa thinks that the research design the head proposes is unethical, but decides she had best not say anything about it because she doesn't want to rock the boat.Nkanyisa is engaged in ____.

Jabu is taking part in a student protest, marching across police lines into an important administrative building on campus.He is so wrapped up in the group mentality that he actually stops thinking about himself as an individual who is separate from the group, and fails to ask himself whether or not he is behaving responsibly.Jabu is probably experiencing ____.

People are MORE likely to engage in the commons dilemma when ____.

The text notes that the effect of role differentiation in cultural groups is the ____.

Given existing research on individualism versus collectivism, what kinds of differences (if any) should we expect between individualists and collectivists in terms of social loafing?

When a group member decides not to express doubts about a group's decision, he or she has engaged in ____.