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WorksheetsGroup Dynamic Quiz
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 20mins
The functional model traces good group decision-making to
the intelligence of the group members.
members’ ability to resist their biases
the degree of training the group members have received.
using proper procedures when making the decision.
By the third week of the project, the group was starting to gel; the members shared a common understanding of who was supposed to do what, who could be counted on to keep up with their responsibilities, and how each person’s contribution fit in with the group’s goals. The group had developed a
shared mental model.
primed goal orientation.
transportational memory
attributional framework.
A collective information-processing model of group decision making assumes that
groups are motivated to make good decisions.
when individuals join groups they are instinctively driven to seek information.
groups seek out and process information to formulate decisions.
social loafing is a cognitive deficit.
Ben is struggling to remember the name of the theorist who developed the theory of groupthink. When he says, “I think it was Joplin,” Angela says, “Oh, I remember. It was Janis.” This process illustrates
cross-cueing.
groupthink.
transactive memory.
collective induction.
The group is sharing information, planning, evaluating ideas, monitoring its progress on the task, and expressing commitment. It is most likely in the ___ stage.
Orientation
Discussion
Implementation
Decision
___ generally increases the time the group needs to reach its decision
Delegating
Averaging input
Voting
Consensus
The group sets aside its own rules and decides to base reward allocations on length of membership rather than merit. The group thus violated ___ principles.
distributive justice
procedural justice
decision rule schema
voice judgment
Joe, Meagan, Allison, and Timothy are classmates who must complete a major course assignment, as a group, by April 15th. During the first meeting, held on February 15th, they make plans for completing the project. Studies of the planning fallacy suggest they will
waste too much time planning out who will do what and when.
underestimate the amount of time the group will need to complete its work.
overestimate the amount of time the group will need to complete its work.
spend much of their time thinking about problems that might slow their progress.
A social-comparison explanation of polarization in groups suggest that polarization occurs when
individuals compare their position to other members’ positions, and find that others are more extreme than they are.
groups generate more arguments in favor of one position rather than another and the members shift their opinions in that direction.
groups implicitly adopt decision rules that prompt them to support more extreme decisions.
groups value caution more than risk, but can’t make a clear comparison between these two values.
Which one is a symptom of groupthink?
group members feel that they are on the brink of making a bad decision
members question the morality of their proposed solution
everyone in the group seems to agree with everyone else
deviants surface in the group and disrupt discussion
