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AWA ch 9
Dr. Toris
Question | Answer |
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Group | 2 or more people who interact and are interdependent in the sense that their needs and goals cause them to influence eachother |
Social Roles | shared expectations in a group about how particular people are supposed to behave |
Group cohesiveness | Qualities of a group that bind members together and promote liking between members |
Social Facilitation | The tendency for people to do better on simple tasks and worse on complex tasks when they are in the presence of others and their individual performance can be evaluated |
social loafing | the tendency for people to do worse on simple tasks but better on complex tasks when they are in the presence of others and their individual performance cannot be evaluated |
deindividuation | the loosening of normal constraints on behavior when people cant be identified, leading to an increase in impulsive and deviant acts |
process loss | any aspect of group interaction that inhibits good problem solving |
transactive memory | the combined memory of two people that is more efficient than the memory of either individual |
groupthink | a kind of thinking in which maintaining group cohesiveness and solidarity is more important than considering the facts in a realistic manner |
group polarization | the tendency for groups to make decision that are more extreme than the initial inclinations of its members |
Great Person Theory | the idea that certain key personality traits make a person a good leader, regardless of the situation |
Transactional Leaders | Leaders who set clear short term goals and reward people who meet them |
transformational Leaders | Leaders who inspire followers to focus on common, long term goals |
Contingency Theory of Leadership | the idea that leadership effectiveness depends on how task-oriented or relationship-oriented the leader is and on the amount of control and influence the leader has over the group |
Task-Oriented Leader | A leader who is concerned more with getting the job done than with workers feelings and relationships |
Relationship-Oriented Leader | A leader who is concerned primarily with workers feelings and relationships |
Social Dilemma | A conflict in which the most beneficial action for an individual will, if chosen by most people, have harmful effects on everyone |
Tit-for-tat Strategy | A means of encouraging cooperation by at first acting cooperatively but then always responding the way your opponent did on the previous trial |
Public Goods Dilemma | a social dilemma in which individuals must contribute to a common pool in order to maintain the public good |
Common Dilemma | A social Dilemma in which everyone takes from a common pool of goods that will replenish itself if used in moderation but will disappear if overused |
Negotiation | A form of communication between opposing sides in a conflict in which offers and counteroffers are made and a solution occurs only when both parties agree |
integrative solution | a solution to a conflict whereby the parties make trade-offs on issues according to their different interests; each side concedes the most on issues that are unimportant to it but important to the other side |