Exam 14: Groups

According to your text, who probably laughs the MOST?

The term groupthink, as used by social psychologists, refers to ____.

The leadership team has convened to work on the strategic planning process.All the members are somewhat fiscally conservative.The new strategic plan turns out to be HIGHLY fiscally conservative.This illustrates ____________________.

The so-called commons dilemma involves two kinds of conflicts: one concerning ____ and one concerning ____.

Who is MOST likely to emerge as a leader in their group?

Your boss at work has asked you and three other employees to come up with some fundraising ideas.'Just put your heads together, speak freely among yourselves, and think up as many ideas as you can,' she says.She is asking you to engage in ____.

____ is a form of creative thinking in groups, using a procedure in which all group members are encouraged to generate as many ideas as possible.

Explanations used to justify why people in power deserve to be in power are called ____________________.

Leaders that focus on planning, motivating, coordinating inputs, and providing feedback are ____.

Jane, an American, joined a sorority in her first year of college and moved into house owned by the sorority in her second year.She had never engaged in binge eating before moving into the sorority.After the end of her second year of living in the house, she is most likely to ____.

Groupthink is the tendency for groups to generate more alternatives than individuals when brainstorming.

In general, do people generate more and better ideas (or make better decisions) when they work independently, or when they collaborate and work as groups? Why or why not? What are the relevant factors?

One person's control over another person is called ____.

What is NOT one of the three characteristics typical of dangerous leaders, as listed in your text?

Binge eating is defined by ____.

According to the text's definition of a group, a dyad can never qualify as a group.

Roscoe is a very structured manager.He sits down with all of his employees and talks to them about what their goals should be and how they should meet them, and he gives clear feedback as to how they are progressing towards meeting their goals.Roscoe is a(n) ____________________-oriented leader.

Research suggests that, when people are given objective power over others (e.g., the ability to hire or fire employees, or to issue pay cuts or bonuses) they tend, in general, ____.

A critical aspect of brainstorming is that ____.

As discussed in the text, it is quite possible that the deeply rooted human impulse to form social groups was partly stimulated by competition among different groups.