Exam 14: Groups

Research suggests that, in the business world, the most successful chief executive officers (CEOs) are those who are resolute in their opinions as well as those who are ____.

Bennett 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. Bennett is a(n) ____________________-oriented leader.

Jayne has issues with her chemistry instructor. Whenever anyone questions the instructor, the instructor gets very nasty. She also does not care about student situations-one time a student was injured in a car accident on the way to the chemistry exam and, even though the student called as soon as possible, the instructor would not let her make up the test or be available outside of class time. The instructor display the characteristics of a dangerous leader, as listed in your text. Which of the following is NOT one these characteristics (but one that is possibly being displayed by the instructor)?

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.

Social psychologists use the term ____ to refer to explanations that are used to justify why people in power deserve to be in power.

Research on diversity in groups indicates that, compared to more homogeneous groups, diverse groups tend to ____.

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

Cockroaches completed simple mazes more quickly when they ran in the presence of other cockroaches (as opposed to alone), and completed complex mazes more quickly when they ran alone (as opposed to in a group). This finding illustrates that, even among cockroaches, ____.

In one of the earliest social psychological experiments to be conducted, Norman Triplett examined the records of teams of cyclists. He found that cyclists who raced against each other ____ than those who raced alone (against the clock).

Based on research on social facilitation, we should expect that-all else being equal-children who work on a set of easy puzzles alone will ____ than children who work on the same puzzles side by side in a big group of other children.

As discussed in the text, when a group experiences a shared emotional experience (whether positive or negative), they tend to feel ____. When they are given a name or uniform that identifies them as a group, they tend to feel ____.

Suppose that you have just joined a local volleyball team. Which of the following items would be least likely to make you feel bonded, or unified, with your new team?

Suppose that you are the manager of an electronics store, and that you have asked the salespeople in two different departments-the camera department and the computer department-to come up with regular, weekly ideas about how to increase sales. However, you have asked the people in the camera department to think up ideas independently, whereas you have asked the people in the computer department to get together as a group every week and brainstorm. You should expect, after several weeks of this, that ____.

The fact that humans engage in altruistic punishment fits one of the themes of the text, namely that ____.

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.

When Joe lived alone, he cleaned his apartment every weekend. But last summer he lived in a house with four other people, and in that situation he rarely put in his fair share of cleaning. Social psychologists would say that, when he lived with others, Joe engaged in ____________________.

Which of the following is NOT one of the three processes upon which social facilitation depends?

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 ____.

A high quality leader must be ____.

High-power people tend to ____.