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Social Psychology explores how individuals perceive, influence, and relate to one another within a social context. This course examines key concepts such as attitudes, social cognition, conformity, group dynamics, prejudice, interpersonal attraction, and aggression. Students will analyze the psychological processes underlying social behavior and learn about classic and contemporary research in the field. Through case studies, experiments, and real-world applications, the course encourages critical thinking about how social factors shape thoughts, feelings, and actions in everyday life.
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Group Dynamics 7th Edition by Donelson R. Forsyth
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Chapter 1: An Introduction to Group Dynamics
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Q1) The study of groups is called group dynamics because
A)the term underscores the importance of psychological processes.
B)the impact of the leader is a major topic of study.
C)the term notes the powerful processes that influence people in groups over time.
D)groups,once formed,rarely change.
Answer: C
Q2) When researchers recorded the size of groups in public places such as parks,sidewalks,cafeterias,and offices,they discovered that most of these groups were
A)small,including only two or three members.
B)large,ranging from 10 to 20 members.
C)short-lived,lasting for less than 30 seconds on average.
D)crowded together rather than well-spaced.
Answer: A
Q3) The stages in Tuckman's (1965)group development model are,in order, A)storming,forming,norming,conforming,adjourning.
B)forming,storming,norming,performing,adjourning.
C)forming,norming,storming,performing,adjourning.
D)forming,storming,conforming,performing,adjourning.
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Studying Groups
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Q1) A measure can be reliable without being valid.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) The Interaction Process Analysis (IPA)is a method for participants in an experiment to evaluate how friendly or unfriendly other group members are.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) The Hawthorne effect would likely be greatest in a(n)___ study.
A)overt observational
B)experimental
C)field
D)quantitative
E)qualitative
Answer: A
Q4) Experimental methods support causal conclusions.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Inclusion and Identity
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Q1) Which statement is consistent with Brewer's optimal distinctiveness theory?
A)People prefer to merge completely with their groups rather than stand as individuals.
B)A sense of distinctiveness from others is optimal.
C)Individuals strive to balance the need for individuality with the need to be connected.
D)The sense of self has three components: the I,the me,and the we.
Answer: C
Q2) Which of the following statements is true?
A)Crowds and audiences reduce social loneliness,but not emotional loneliness.
B)Due the illness transmission,people who belong to many groups tend to be less healthy than people who belong to fewer groups.
C)Romantic relationships reduce emotional loneliness,but not necessarily social loneliness.
D)When people are alone they feel loneliness.
Answer: C
Q3) According to Leary,the opposite of maximum inclusion is total ambivalence.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Formation
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Q1) Individuals with elevated scores on the ___ dimension of personality are most likely to join an artists' circle like the one formed by the impressionists.
A)openness to experience
B)agreeableness
C)conscientiousness
D)neuroticism
E)assertiveness
Q2) When we are ___ we desire affiliation,but when we are ___ we desire privacy.
A)uncertain;embarrassed
B)embarrassed;uncertain
C)aroused;fearful
D)fearful;aroused
Q3) 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.
Q4) Use social exchange theory's concepts (e.g. ,minimax principles,comparison level,and comparison level for alternatives)to explain why high school students seek inclusion in cliques of popular peers.
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Chapter 5: Cohesion and Development
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Q1) Summarize Tuckman's five-stage model of group development,naming and giving an example of each stage he identifies.
Q2) What is the difference between interpersonal attraction and cohesion?
Q3) The U.S.Hockey team,when it played the Russians,was likely at the ___ stage of development.
A)forming
B)storming
C)adjourning
D)norming
E)performing
Q4) Which of the following is most closely associated with task cohesion?
A)social attraction
B)esprit de corps
C)entitativity
D)commitment
E)collective efficacy
Q5) Cohesiveness is such a complex concept that it cannot be defined.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Compare the concept of cohesion to the concept of entitativity.
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Chapter 6: Structure
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Q1) Differences in authority are to differences in attraction as ___ differentiation is to ___ differentiation.
A)status;sociometric
B)social standing;power position
C)structure;feeling
D)power;communication
Q2) Describe your own role tendencies in groups in terms of preference for task roles or relationship roles.
Q3) The relationships among users of the social network Facebook are required to be symmetrical relationships.
A)True
B)False
Q4) According to Moreland and Levine's theory,commitment to the group is highest among prospective members and begins to decline once acceptance occurs.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Why do task roles and relationship roles emerge so regularly in groups?
Q6) What are some of the common causes of role conflict for college students?
Q7) How is a role in a group like a role in a play? How do they differ?
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Chapter 7: Influence
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Q1) Summarize the methods used and the results obtained by Moscovici in his studies of minority influence.
Q2) As groups increase in size,conformity tends to increase,but at an ever-decreasing rate.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following statements is true?
A)Women conform more than men in both public and private group situations.
B)Even when women have high status,they conform more than low status men.
C)Men often refuse to conform in face-to-face settings to demonstrate their independence.
D)Women's conformity springs from their biological need to belong.
Q4) Minorities influence group members through ___ influence.
A)indirect
B)normative
C)direct
D)bilateral
E)determinational
Q5) Summarize the methods used and results obtained by Asch in his studies of conformity.
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Chapter 8: Power
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Q1) Critique the Milgram studies on scientific and on ethical grounds.
Q2) You must convince your professor to grant you an extension on a project.What power tactics will you use and why?
Q3) According to Kelman,which sequence is accurate?
A)compliance,identification,internalization
B)identification,compliance,internalization
C)identification,rebellion,conversion
D)compliance,conformity,conversion
E)alarm,resistance,exhaustion
Q4) Reward power decreases if
A)the reward offered is highly valued.
B)group members are dependent on the powerholder.
C)the powerholder's promises are credible.
D)other individuals can also deliver the reward.
E)any of the circumstances listed here occur.
Q5) 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
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Chapter 9: Leadership
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Q1) High LPC is to Low LPC as ____ is to ____.
A)good leadership;poor leadership
B)autocratic;democratic
C)product-focused;people-focused
D)relationship-oriented;task-oriented
Q2) James McGregor Burns calls leadership one of the most misunderstood phenomena on earth.What are some common misunderstandings about leadership?
Q3) Derinda is the leader of the enterprise resources group,but she has a unique leadership style.She seems to have great concern for making sure the group members' relationships are positive;she is always agreeable,eager to help,comforting,and noncontroversial.She does not show any concern for productivity,per se,for she feels that people come first.According to Blake and Mouton,she has a ___ leadership style.
A)1-9
B)9-9
C)1-1
D)9-1
E)5-5
Q4) Compare and contrast a transactional leader versus a transformational leader.
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Chapter 10: Performance
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Q1) Which of the following does not fit with the others?
A)high personal involvement
B)indispensability
C)anonymity
D)clear group goals
E)challenging group goals
Q2) Which finding is NOT consistent with a cognitive explanation of social facilitation?
A)Many species,including cockroaches,show signs of social facilitation.
B)Recall is poorer when stimuli are presented in the presence of others.
C)Facilitation is reduced if the others in the situation are not noticed.
D)Presence of others improves performance on the Stroop task.
Q3) What makes eating such a socially complicated process?
Q4) In a clear case of ___,the group performs the conjunctive task well after it insists that Edward-who had been working very slowly-improve his performance.
A)the Köhler effect
B)social facilitation
C)truth wins
D)social compensation
E)social combination
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Chapter 11: Teams
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Q1) Teams composed of only men routinely outperform teams composed of only women.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following statements is true?
A)"Team" is another word for "group."
B)A team is basically a leader-centered group.
C)A team is basically a self-managed (leaderless)group.
D)Groups are teams,but teams are not groups.
E)Teams are groups,but not all groups are teams.
Q3) Cultural diversity
A)unlike other forms of diversity,usually increases a group's cohesion.
B)is a form of deep diversity,since it is usually associated with differences in language,experiences,ideology,and values.
C)was minimized in the astronaut crews at the International Space Station.
D)is not related to team performance.
Q4) Team effectiveness is most closely associated with extraversion and emotional stability.
A)True
B)False
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Q5) How would you measure the intelligence of a group (collective intelligence)?
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Chapter 12: Decision Making
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Q1) Marjorie Shaw,when comparing individual performance to group performance on difficult problems,found that
A)individuals solved more problems than groups did.
B)individuals who performed poorly alone did not do any better when placed in a group.
C)groups solved more problems than individuals.
D)groups need less time than did individuals.
Q2) Which of the following is a symptom of groupthink?
A)Group members feel that they are on the brink of making a bad decision.
B)Members question the morality of their proposed solution.
C)Everyone in the group seems to agree with everyone else.
D)Deviants surface in the group and disrupt discussion.
E)The opponent,if one exists,is overrated.
Q3) Which of the following is NOT a symptom of groupthink?
A)The existence of self-appointed mindguards
B)The self-censorship of dissenting ideas
C)Social pressures encouraging excessive dissent
D)Illusions of invulnerability
E)Defective decision-making strategies
Q4) Why are meetings not as effective as they should be?
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Chapter 13: Conflict
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Q1) Which of the following statements is true?
A)Women are more competitive than men.
B)More men than women adopt cooperative social values.
C)People who adopt individualistic social values are motivated to avoid other people.
D)Social values vary systematically across cultures.
Q2) Conflict is disagreement,discord,or friction that occurs when the actions of one or more group members are resisted by one or more other group members.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Describe how people who differ in their basic values orientations perceive other people during episodes of conflict.
Q4) Which is not one of the basic orientations identified in the theory of Social Value Orientation?
A)competitive
B)cooperative
C)individualistic
D)principled
E)altruistic
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Chapter 14: Intergroup Relations
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Q1) Identify theories of intergroup conflict that suggest disputes between groups are inevitable,and contrast them with theories that are more optimistic.
Q2) The tendency for conflict to encourage further conflict is best explained by
A)the norm of reciprocity.
B)a value shaping process.
C)an excitation transfer effect.
D)the inclusive aggression norm.
Q3) Studies of moral exclusion indicate that groups that commit extreme acts of violence against another group
A)are inherently evil people,like the Nazis.
B)believe that the outgroup is evil and morally worthless.
C)are in an agentic state where independent action is impossible.
D)are no longer acting on their own morals and instead follow the group's morals.
Q4) What is "realistic" about conflicts between groups,according to realistic group conflict theory?
Q5) Compare and contrast these two types of contact situations: extended contact hypothesis and the virtual contact hypothesis.
Q6) Briefly describe the jigsaw technique.
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Chapter 15: Groups in Context
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Q1) Individuals' perceptions of their environment are usually based on two dimensions
A)dangerous-safe;clean-dirty
B)noise-quiet;warm-cold
C)red-green;blue-yellow
D)crowded-uncrowded;public-private
E)positive-negative;activating-deactivating
Q2) The group is happy with the workplace,because it has lots of light,nice furnishings,and is painted in bright colors that cheer everyone up.The group is responding to the setting's A)load.
B)behavior setting.
C)group space.
D)psychological space.
E)ambience.
Q3) Studies of the impact of noise on people indicate that A)only very loud,punishing noise leads to any ill-effects.
B)people can cope with noise,but in time they begin to display ill-effects.
C)people are distracted by the noise,but it leads to no long term effects.
D)individuals seek out environments that are somewhat noisy,but not too noisy.
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Chapter 16: Growth and Change
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Q1) An individual who is harmed by participation in group therapy is termed a A)premature termination.
B)burnout.
C)dropout.
D)casualty.
Q2) When researchers studied 18 different types of therapeutic approaches to change,they (Lieberman,Yalom,& Miles,1973)found that
A)structured groups are superior to unstructured ones.
B)no one theoretical approach is superior to the others.
C)groups work best when the leader is warm and humanistic.
D)behavioral groups are least effective.
Q3) In therapeutic groups the therapist takes steps to prevent the formation of a social relationships between the members of the group.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Compare the potential effectiveness of support groups and traditional psychotherapeutic groups by drawing on the concept of therapeutic factors.
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) Use McPhail's crowd observation system to describe the behavior of individuals during a sporting event.
Q2) Which of the following is NOT one of the categories of elementary crowd behavior identified by McPhail and his colleagues in their crowd-behavior coding system?
A)movement
B)vocalization
C)mayhem
D)gesticulation
E)manipulation
Q3) Panics differ from riots emotionally: panics are usually anxious or fearful.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Are riots caused by the loss of identity,or by the activation of a collective identity?
Q5) How do audiences know when to start and stop clapping?
Q6) What is the difference between a collective movement (such as a fad or trend)and a social movement?
Q7) Use the concept of relative deprivation to explain why people join social movements.
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