Group Dynamics Test Preparation
Course Introduction
Group Dynamics explores the psychological processes that occur when individuals interact within a group context. The course examines theories and research related to group formation, structure, roles, leadership, communication, decision-making, conflict, and cohesion. Students will analyze how group behavior influences individual attitudes, perceptions, and performance, as well as the impact of social norms and cultural factors. Through case studies, simulations, and collaborative projects, learners will develop practical skills in facilitating effective teamwork, resolving conflicts, and enhancing group productivity in academic, organizational, and social settings.
Recommended Textbook Group Dynamics 7th Edition by Donelson R. Forsyth
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Chapter 1: An Introduction to Group Dynamics
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Q1) In general,the interdependencies of members in groups are
A)symmetric rather than asymmetric.
B)equal rather than unequal.
C)Intermittent rather than continuous.
D)unequal rather than equal.
Answer: D
Q2) A group is two or more individuals who are connected to one another by and within social relationships.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) How many relationships would be needed to link all members of a 20-person group?
A)almost 200
B)20,but 40 if counting connections to the group itself.
C)it depends on the group's overall cohesiveness
D)105
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Studying Groups
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Q1) Groupthink is a scientifically verified method for increasing a group's creativity.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) I use the Interaction Process Analysis in a study of groups and conclude that nearly 42% of behaviors occur in the positive behavior categories (1,3,and 3)and that only 22% of the behaviors in the group can be coded in the questions categories (7,8,9).My theory has elements of several theoretical approaches,but if you focus on the theory's most CENTRAL assumptions,you would call it a(n)___ theory.
A)motivation and emotion
B)behavioral
C)systems
D)cognitive
E)biological
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Inclusion and Identity
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Q1) Which of the following statements is NOT true?
A)Individualistic societies stress the needs of the individual first.
B)Collectivistic societies put the group and its members before the individual.
C)Individualists think of themselves as independent and free from group influence.
D)Although quite different,individualists and collectivists have similar relationship orientations.
E)Individualists are just as likely to spend time with friends and family as collectivists.
Answer: D
Q2) A psychology major who automatically favors psychology majors over other majors has succumbed to the ingroup-outgroup bias.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Like a need for water,individuals feel a need to belong in social groups.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Formation
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Q1) Use studies of the relationship between extraversion and happiness AND cultural studies of shy individuals' social evaluations to develop a marketing pitch for a company that helps introverts become more extraverted.
Q2) Which of the following is NOT one of the dimensions of personality in the Big Five theory?
A)openness to experience
B)agreeableness
C)conscientiousness
D)extraversion
E)assertiveness
Q3) How are the needs for affiliation,intimacy,and power similar to-and different from-needs for inclusion,control and affection?
Q4) Describe two situations in which you were embarrassed and afraid.If given a chance in these situations,would you have wanted to join a group?
Q5) Affiliation brings people into contact with each other,and attraction bonds individuals into groups.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Cohesion and Development
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Q1) The group is high in ___ cohesion,for it gives members a feeling of belongingness,"weness," and inclusion.
A)attraction
B)social
C)collective
D)task
E)associative
Q2) Which of the following statements is true?
A)A group that is confident is high in collective efficacy.
B)Cohesion is based on attraction,and is separate and distinct from the group's level of coordination and goal-orientation.
C)Because task cohesion requires modification of individual tendencies,increases in task cohesion tend to reduce the level of social cohesiveness of the group.
D)Collective efficacy is a group's shared belief that it can successfully execute the actions required to be successful.
E)All the statements listed are true.
Q3) Summarize Tuckman's five-stage model of group development,naming and giving an example of each stage he identifies.
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Chapter 6: Structure
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Q1) Attraction structures in groups tend to be
A)nonreciprocal.
B)transitive.
C)unbalanced.
D)unorganized.
E)hierarchical.
Q2) Which statement is the LEAST consistent with the concept of roles?
A)How we behave in groups depends on our role in that group.
B)Sociologically,roles have an existence independent of individuals.
C)People generally act based on their personal values.
D)Roles are a part of the structure of a group.
Q3) Which of the following is an example of an injunctive norm?
A)People should not eat meat because it is morally wrong.
B)Most students on this campus drink four or fewer alcohol-based drinks when they party.
C)Fewer than 10% of the students on this campus participate in food fights when in the cafeteria.
D)Most young faculty members believe that students study between 8-10 hours outside of class.
E)Most people sleep about 8.5 hours out of 24.
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Chapter 7: Influence
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Q1) Asch,using a simple line-judging task,discovered that individuals will agree with an incorrect majority nearly all the time
A)True
B)False
Q2) Minorities influence group members through ___ influence.
A)indirect
B)normative
C)direct
D)bilateral
E)determinational
Q3) Schachter found evidence of a curvilinear relationship between time and communication
A)whenever a deviant was in the group.
B)whenever the deviant refused to conform.
C)in some groups in the relevant,cohesive condition.
D)in the time pressures,cohesive condition only.
Q4) Summarize the methods used and the results obtained by Moscovici in his studies of minority influence.
Q5) Why do groups and the members of groups change their opinions over time?
Q6) Why is a unanimous majority so influential?
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Chapter 8: Power
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Q1) Americans fear terrorist attacks by Muslims against America.If Americans fall prey to the fundamental attribution error,they will conclude
A)Muslims are committed to expanding their world domination by violence.
B)American aggression forced the Islamic world to protect itself.
C)Most Muslims are peaceful people coerced into violence by their malevolent leaders.
D)Conflict between religious groups is inevitable.
Q2) Because they control fewer resources,the rewards low people give are viewed as more valuable than the same rewards given by powerful individuals.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What did Milgram find when he decreased the distance between the teacher and the learner,placed subjects in three-person groups,and varied the authority's social power?
Q4) A tragedy of such magnitude as the Holocaust,in which millions of Jews were killed by Hitler's regime,defies explanation.But does a social-psychological analysis that draws on the concepts of conformity,obedience,and power yield some-although admittedly incomplete-insight into this terrible chapter in human history?
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Chapter 9: Leadership
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Q1) Drawing on theory and research,provide a succinct but comprehensive definition of the word "leadership."
Q2) Contrary to popular opinion,most leaders are young,ethnic women.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following is MOST consistent with an evolutionary perspective on leadership?
A)People have an instinctive need to resist taking orders from a leader.
B)Some individuals are,by instinct,born to take the role of the leader.
C)Leadership enhances the evolutionary fitness of individuals by increasing their group's effectiveness.
D)Leadership has always been,and always will be,a part of human nature.
Q4) You are about to meet a person for the first time.You have been told only one thing about the person: That the individual is a "leader." Describe this individual in detail,including demographic and personal qualities.
Q5) People's strong desire to be named the leader of their group is known as the romance of leadership.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Performance
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Q1) Triplett,who was one of the first researchers to study social facilitation,was inspired to do his work after watching ants in an ant colony working collaboratively as they foraged.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following is NOT a component of Steiner's typology of tasks?
A)divisibility of the task
B)difficulty of the task
C)quantity or quality desired
D)procedures used to combine inputs
Q3) According to Zajonc,for ___ tasks the presence of others ___ performance.
A)simple;detracts from
B)conjunctive;detracts from C)complex;enhances
D)simple;enhances
E)conjunctive;enhances
Q4) When people work on simple tasks with an audience,they tend to display a challenge response rather than a threat response.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Teams
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Q1) Compare and contrast the following types of teams,and give an example of each: work teams,management teams,project teams,and advisory teams.
Q2) Which of the following is NOT one of the core components of coordinated team action,as conceptualized by Marks,Mathieu,and Zaccaro?
A)transitioning
B)communication
C)acting
D)managing interpersonal relations
Q3) What are quality circles,and how do they differ from teams? What can be done to prevent teams from following in the way of quality circles?
Q4) The intuitive appeal of teams as effective means of improving performance in business and organizational settings,despite the relative lack of definitive evidence supporting their utility,is known as A)groupthink.
B)the Abilene paradox.
C)the assumed wisdom of crowds.
D)trust in numbers effect
E)the romance of teams.
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Chapter 12: Decision Making
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Q1) When Bales used his Interaction Process Analysis (IPA)to study the content of group's discussions during decision making,he discovered that the most frequent type of behavior displayed by group members was
A)showing solidarity.
B)giving opinions.
C)asking for suggestions.
D)planning the process.
E)disagreeing.
Q2) Summarize the methods used and results obtained in Majorie Shaw's 1932 study of decision-making groups.
Q3) The shared information bias occurs when group's members withhold,and do not discuss,information that only they possess.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Highly cohesive groups are less likely to experience groupthink.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What four factors does Janis identify as key causes of groupthink?
Q6) Compare and contrast the basic five basic social decision schemes.
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Chapter 13: Conflict
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Q1) Conflict,in the trucking game experiments,was greater in the bilateral threat condition than in the unilateral threat condition.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Anger is a means of communicating one's displeasure to other group members.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following statements is true?
A)Humans are the only species that recognize violations of distributive justice.
B)Even primates react negatively when they are overbenefitted by positive inequity.
C)Some primates,such as capuchins,respond negatively when they are "paid" less than others for the same amount of work.
D)Except for humans,primates suffer from "reciprocity blindness": they cannot distinguish between equitable and inequitable reward distributions.
E)Only humans display free-riding.
Q4) Compare the negative effects of task and process conflict to the negative effects of personal conflict.
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Chapter 14: Intergroup Relations
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Q1) The situations studied the Sherifs and Insko and his colleagues all had one thing in common: competition between groups.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Insko and his colleagues have examined the impact of coercive power on conflict using a cross-generational procedure.These studies suggest that
A)social evolutionary processes cannot be simulated.
B)the use of coercive power disrupts systems of production.
C)economic power is as contentious as coercive power.
D)the "idle rich" hypothesis is not true.
Q3) Insko and his colleagues call the level of conflict displayed during intergroup conflict the "discontinuity effect" because
A)such conflicts disrupt relationships so substantially.
B)the abrupt increases and decreases in conflict are not continuous.
C)groups are markedly more competitive than individuals.
D)such conflicts spiral upward so rapidly.
Q4) Identify theories of intergroup conflict that suggest disputes between groups are inevitable,and contrast them with theories that are more optimistic.
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Chapter 15: Groups in Context
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Q1) Cross-cultural studies of personal space needs suggest that in warmer places people need less space in the social zones but more space in the intimate zone.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Replacing leaders and decreasing communication are common responses to overstaffing.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The idea "the more,the merrier," is consistent with the ___ theory of crowding.
A)overload
B)stress-arousal
C)control
D)density-intensity
E)staffing
Q4) Which of the following statements is FALSE?
A)Status and size of territory are correlated.
B)Individuals,but not groups,establish territories.
C)Even humans sometimes defend their territories with markers.
D)People feel more comfortable when they territorialize their living areas.
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Chapter 16: Growth and Change
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Q1) Rosseta learns to express her positive and negative feelings by watching Edwina talk to the group,for Edwina is very emotionally expressive.This change illustrates
A)observational learning.
B)insight.
C)positive reinforcement.
D)altruism.
E)transference.
Q2) ___ therapy groups emphasize learn adaptive ways of thinking and behaving.
A)Psychoanalytic
B)Gestalt
C)T-group
D)Cognitive-behavior
Q3) What are the advantages of group treatment compared to individual treatment?
Q4) A psychoeducational group is typically a planned intervention that teaches members to focus on a specific set of interpersonal skills.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Compare Freud's concepts of group psychotherapy to the humanistic approach.
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Chapter 17: Crowds and Collectives
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Q1) Which of the following does not fit with the others?
A)diffusions
B)trends
C)fads
D)social movements
E)riots
Q2) Deindividuation decreases with increases in
A)anonymity.
B)group size.
C)self-awareness.
D)arousal.
E)anonymity,group size,self-awareness,and arousal.
Q3) Emergent norm theory suggests that the best way to keep crowds from engaging in negative behaviors to maintain clear norms that define what behaviors are expected of all members.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Panics differ from riots emotionally: panics are usually anxious or fearful.
A)True
B)False
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