Exam 13: Conflict

Frank dislikes Dinah,for she has many qualities that bother Frank-she is sloppy,moody,and interrupts him.Dinah dislikes Frank,for she thinks he is a bore.These feelings create ___ conflict when they are assigned to the same project at work.

A mixed-motive situation occurs when

Describe the "tragedy of the commons" (the commons dilemma)and use this parable to explain the tension between self-interest and communal concern in groups.

For Deutsch,cooperation is to competition as ___ is to ___.

Which conflict management strategy reflects a lack of concern for both self and other?

When Lisa and Seymour first meet,Seymour cooperates and Lisa competes.Later,when Lisa cooperates,Seymour cooperates.When Lisa competes,Seymour competes.Seymour is following a ___ strategy.

"No taxation without representation" is an outcry against procedural injustice.

At the dog park,everyone is supposed to clean up after their dogs and watch their dogs when in the park.However,Danny neither cleans up after his dog nor stops it from digging holes.He figures that someone else will fix it.This situation is a

Bill and Ted have been captured and placed in a "prisoners' dilemma." If Bill confesses to the crime,he would be ___ Ted.

In one version of the Deutsch and Krauss (1960)trucking experiment the two participants were given the opportunity to communicate with one another during the simulation.The results of that variation suggest that

Hard negotiation is to ___ as principled negotiation is to ___.

The prisoner's dilemma,a team game first used by a prison warden to decease rates of intergroup conflict in his prison,has been successfully adapted to the business world.

Anger is a means of communicating one's displeasure to other group members.

Describe how people who differ in their basic values orientations perceive other people during episodes of conflict.

Frank and Dinah are playing the PDG (prisoners' dilemma game).If they both pick A,they both win $2.If they both pick B,they both lose $1.If one picks A and the other picks B,the one who picks A loses $1 and the one who picks B wins $4.If Frank picks B he is making the ___ choice.

Describe how researchers use the prisoner's dilemma game (PDG)to study sources of conflict in groups,and be certain to include a matrix representation of the reward allocation scheme in your answer.

What would you do if you were given the opportunity to play the prisoner's dilemma game (PDG)? What would your choice say about your social values?

How do people differ,in general,in their social values orientation pertaining to conflict? What is your basic social values orientation?

In the "trucking game" experiment,the power to threaten others was manipulated by giving some of the subjects

Because of ___,people tend to assume someone who competes is a competitor and that someone who cooperates is a cooperator.