BTEC L3 Sports Psychology - Groups

An example of a personal factor affecting team cohesion would be: 

• Contract
• Task motivation
• Team goals
• Length of time the team has been together

Social loafing is most likely to result in;

• Decreased social cohesion
• Improved task cohesion
• Decreased team performance
• Increased team performance

According to Carron, a 13 year old girl who plays netball for the team who she is bound to by geographical location is an example of;

• An environmental factor
• A personal factor
• A team factor
• All of the above

What is social loafing?

• A process where individuals in teams work less hard than they would individually
• A process where individuals work harder when they are in teams
• When someone hangs around others and enjoys being part of a team
• A situation where individuals enjoy team building activities

Cohesive groups are usually;

• Complacent and more self-satisfied
• Those that make better quality decisions
• Those that are more likely to achieve their goals
• Those that unite to come into conflict with other groups

Three players in a team tend to always hang out together, only pass to each other and disassociate themselves from the rest of the group. This is known as;

• Leadership
• A clique
• A break-away
• Selfishness

Team Cohesion is:

• The degree of how much a team member wants to get involved with the team and care much about team outcomes.
• Meh, who cares?
  Screw the team
• The degree of how much a team member wants to be a ‘freak control’ to make sure everything is on track.
• The degree to which individual members want to contribute to the other group’s ability.

Choose the correct order of Team Development Model.

• Forming → Adjourning → Norming → Performing → Stormingg
• Adjourning →Forming → Storming → Performing → Norming
• Forming → Storming → Norming → Performing → Adjourning
• Forming → Norming → Storming → Performing → Adjourning

Bigger teams have less cohesion.

• True
• False

Cohesion among members of a group would lead to

• competition among members

• conflict among members

• disunity among members

• attainment of groups goals