Exam 14: Groups

According to social facilitation theory, for most people, task performance for tasks such as ____ should be enhanced by the presence of others, while task performance for tasks such as ____ should be hindered by the presence of others.

The so-called commons dilemma involves two kinds of conflicts: one concerning ____ and one concerning ____.

Which of the following does NOT qualify as a group, according to the definition given in the text?

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.

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, ____.

On Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, which of the lifelines tends to be most effective?

Altruistic punishment is BEST described as ____.

Compared to human groups, the social groups formed by animals are much less tolerant of ____.

Which of the following is the most accurate summary of social facilitation theory?

The term ____ refers to the tendency of group members to think alike.

Who is most likely to emerge as a leader in their group?

According to the text's definition of a group, a dyad can never qualify as a group.

Many modern offices have open, public shared spaces (rather than cubicles or offices). This office style works best if the employees are working on ____.

Loss of accountability is behind much of deindividuation's negative effects in groups.

Research indicates that if eight people work jointly in a brainstorming session, they are likely to come up with ____ eight people working independently.

Kari is in a research group with the chair of the department. The team members are all good friends, and the department chair is well-liked and popular. Kari thinks that the research design the chair proposes is unethical, but decides she had best not say anything about it because she doesn't want to rock the boat. Kari is engaged in ____.

Even though Joey suffered because of it-his peers at school teased him for months-he filed a report with the principal's office when he heard that two of the popular kids at school had cheated on a big exam. Joey filed the report for everyone's good. Social psychologists would say that in reporting the students, Joey engaged in ____.

Legitimizing myths are explanations that are used to account for ____.

Research suggests that, at least in business, the two traits that characterize successful leaders are ____.

It would be most accurate to say that "groups are smarter than individuals" when ____.