Exam 14: Groups

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

Research suggests that, at least in business, the two traits that characterize successful leaders are ____. ​

Diversity within a group with respect to ____ is more likely to more readily result in misunderstandings, distrust, and other communicative problems.

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

Similarity is important to membership in a human cultural group because it ____. ​

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

Belonging to a human cultural group involves two separate demands. They are ____.

The social facilitation theory suggests that tasks like walking, brushing one's teeth, or counting will be ____ by the presence of others. It also suggests that tasks like solving a difficult math problem or crossword puzzle will be ____ by the presence of others.

The statement of Stanislaus Lezczynski, King of Poland, that "no snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible,"captures the notion of ____.

Groups tend to be especially ineffective when they use transactive memory.

Many modern offices have open, public shared spaces (rather than cubicles or offices). This office style works BEST if the employees are working on ____.

Which of the following is an example of group polarization?

Suppose you are working on a project with four people, and you need ideas about how to find research participants to complete a survey for free. Should you brainstorm ideas as a group or work independently?

When groups make use of transactive memory, they tend to ____. ​

A research study on the effects of power found that powerful bosses ____. ​

Research has shown that power seems to create a state of mind that favors ____.

In the context of the commons dilemma, people are LEAST likely to over harvest resources when ____.

Why do business managers prefer to form teams?

Legitimizing myths are explanations that are used to account for ____.

Research suggests that group decision making is superior to individual decision making when ____.