Exam 9: Understanding Group and Team Performance

Explain the difference between a rule and a norm.

One of the primary differences between a team and a group is that teams are more likely than groups to develop explicit rules for how the tasks should be accomplished.

_____ is a social role in groups.

A teacher or a supervisor is an example of a person who has legitimate power.

If a person had the power to influence people by making them uncomfortable,he/she has _____ power.

The admissions office on campus was concerned about the high percentage of freshmen who were opting to move out of the residence halls at the end of the fall semester.They decided to bring together random groups of students,and have each group discuss the residence halls.In what type of groups are the students participating?

The phase in which group members become more unified is the reinforcement phase.

What are individual roles?

All groups are teams,but not all teams are groups.

Leonard is a group member who holds a different opinion than the other group members,and the other members spend a lot of time talking to him to try to change his mind.Leonard would be known as a(n)_____.

A collectivistic assumption is that _____.

When people receive messages from one person at a time,they are utilizing the _____ communication interaction pattern.

Conflict that arises in the conflict phase is known as secondary tension.

Vlad is the leader of a group;he receives most of the messages from the group members,and he provides most of the information the group members receive.This is an example of a(n)_____ network.

After Jennifer's group in her communication class had met twice,they finally began to get serious about selecting a topic for their project.Several of the group members wanted to do a project on the parking situation on campus,because they thought it would be easy to understand.Tyler,who was in the student government,wanted to do a project on the use of student fees,because he had worked on that already and had a lot of information.Each person in the group had a favorite topic,and no one wanted to consider the other topics.Most of the discussion revolved around trying to persuade the others to choose a given topic.Which phase is this group experiencing?

According to your book,status and power are essentially the same thing.

The degree of attraction that members of a group feel toward one another and the group is _____.

Which of the following describes the concern of a bona fide perspective of groups?

Which of the following is a characteristic of a group with low cohesiveness?

For a collection of people to be considered a group,individuals should have a sense of belonging to the group.