Exam 9: Group Processes: Influence in Social Groups

One explanation for social facilitation focuses on the role of evaluation apprehension-the anxiety associated with being judged by others-in creating a state of arousal in people.What is the weakness of this explanation?

When women are chosen for leadership positions over units or departments in crisis,

As women's roles have changed in the U.S.during the twentieth century-from being higher status and more educated,to a dip in status during the post-WWII era,to a rise in status with the feminist movement- women's average level of the personality trait ____ has changed correspondingly.

Which of the following collections of people best represents the social-psychological concept of a true group?

Shared group expectations about how particular group members are expected to behave are called

Assume that you are playing pool at the student union when several of your buddies surround the table to watch you play.If you are ____ player,you would ____ because of the arousing effects of their presence.

According to the definition provided in your text,which of the following qualifies as a true group?

Martin Luther King Jr.and Mahatma Gandhi led large groups of people in protests against injustice.According to information in your text about the process of deindividuation,why is it that these groups did not behave violently?

According to your text,group members tend to ____ in age,sex,beliefs,and opinions.

The leader who would be most effective is one who uses

____ refers to the tendency of people to perform better on simple tasks and worse on complex tasks when others are present.

The authors of your text cite the strategic disaster of the Bay of Pigs in 1961 as an example of

In person,Paul is very mild-mannered and kind.However,his posts in anonymous chatrooms are sometimes explicit and offensive in nature.Why would this be the case?

Norm and Vera are feuding over where to go out to dinner.Norm wants to go to Denny's for the Grand Slam,but Vera wants to go to Sizzler for the all-you-can-eat salad bar.Finally,exchanging a series of proposals and counter proposals,they settle on a new diner in town that has both cheap food and a salad bar.This situation is an example of

Recall that Twenge (2001)found that women's self-ratings of assertiveness mirrored the opportunities for women that were available socially,becoming more assertive during those times when women's roles were more independent and less assertive when women's roles became more dependent.According to the text,the "take-home" message of this finding is

The evaluation apprehension explanation for the source of arousal that produces social facilitation posits that ____ leads to increased arousal-and thus to enhanced performance on simple tasks.

Research by Gardner and Knowles (2008)illustrated that even the presence of impacted performance such that participants did better on ____ tasks and worse on ____ tasks.

According to a social comparison interpretation,group polarization tends to occur because individuals can present themselves in a more ____ light by taking slightly more ____ positions than the norm of the group.

Proponents of the ____ theory of leadership assume that certain key personality traits (e.g.,decisiveness,intelligence,compassion)make someone a good leader.

Is it true that deindividuation always leads people to act negatively or violently?