Exam 11: Power in Groups: A Central Dynamic

Power is

Dominance is

Punishment can be a powerful means of influencing behavior of group members if used often and together with rewards.

The most fundamental lesson of the Milgram studies is that when the destructive effects of people's behavior become clear and when individuals are ordered by authority figures to carry out actions that are viewed as objectionable, most individuals will defy legitimate authority figures.

No recent research suggests that subjects would blindly obey legitimate authorities as Milgram found in his studies decades ago.

Resistance is

An extrinsic reward is enjoying what one does for its own sake and an intrinsic reward is an inducement such as money, grades, or recognition.

When comparing women and men as leaders, research supports which of the following conclusions?

Resistance is often duplicitous and manipulative, and generally should be discouraged as incompetent communication.

An effective way to address passive aggressive resistance strategies is

You want to determine by observation who has the most power in a group. The first place to begin is with general indicators of power, such as

Assertiveness is primarily a strategy of resistance.

"Our discussion of this issue will begin in half an hour, okay?" This is an example of a relatively powerless form of verbal communication called a(n)

Women typically use tag questions, disclaimers, and hedges more often than men in mixed-sex groups.

One of the members of your project group doesn't know how to navigate certain Internet sites to do research for the group project. When group members offer to teach her some simple ways to do this, she appears to be interested, but never pays much attention to instructions given by other members and she consistently makes simple errors whenever trying to use the Internet with guidance from others. She actually hopes that eventually she'll be given other duties because teaching her is just too labor intensive and time consuming for other group members. She doesn't feel comfortable telling the group directly that she won't learn to use the Internet because that might get her ostracized by the group. Instead, she pretends to try to learn but never seems to grasp how to use it. This is an example of

High power-distance cultures generally accept the fact that the more powerful are entitled to greater power than less powerful individuals.

Despite wishing otherwise, some group members can be totally powerless and unable to affect a group in any way.

The Milgram studies on "obedience" demonstrate that

In general, group members who use more powerful language patterns are perceived to be more credible, attractive, and persuasive than those using less powerful language.

Which of the following is a way to combat resistance strategies in groups?