Exam 9: Group Processes: Influence in Social Groups

Who will probably be most successful at performing his or her task?

All things being equal, ____ from ____ cultures would be most likely to engage in social loafing.

Sometimes famous performers have horrible final rehearsals in empty auditoriums prior to a big performance,yet they end up having wonderful performances in front of audiences.Why would the presence of others increase performance on a well-rehearsed task,such as musical performance?

Ted is a manager who effectively motivates his employees to complete their short-term projects in a timely manner without sacrificing quality.Ted always rewards the employees who meet these goals.Ted has a ____ leadership style.

Dozens of social-psychological experiments on the topic of social facilitation have employed people and a variety of animals and insects.One consistent finding has emerged from these many studies:

According to research,most people believe recall a room temperature that is ____ when they are asked to recall being rejected by others.Why is this?

According to social-psychological reasoning,a large "student body" is not a social group because

Studies examining the relationship between leadership effectiveness and personality find that

You are supervising several work groups at your company.Which of the following groups is not suffering from process loss?

The resident assistant of a campus residence hall notices that when a team of five students is assigned to bathroom duty,the bathrooms are not as well cleaned as when only one student is assigned to clean them.What phenomenon does this example illustrate?

According to Robert Zajonc's (1969,1980)social facilitation theory,would you play pool better alone,or when others are observing you? Explain your answer.

According to the authors of your text,there are two reasons why deindividuation leads to more deviant behavior:

Describe the consequences of the "double bind" of conflicting social role demands that can make it difficult for women to be successful as leaders.

The group processes of social loafing and deindividuation share the common feature that they are both caused in part by

Which of the following explanations for social facilitation applies to humans but not to cockroaches? Animals are

According to the authors of your text,threats

What is deindividuation and why does it occur (sometimes leading to riots or vigilante justice)?

Which of the following individuals is most likely to engage in social loafing?

"Don't talk during the movie" and "Cross the street at the corner or crosswalk" are examples of

You are a member of a group of 5 people whose task it is to address and stuff 1,000 envelopes for mailing.Research on ____ suggests that it would be better to give each person 200 envelopes to address alone,whereas research on ____ suggests that it would be better to have everyone work on the task together in the same room.