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SGC chapt 5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the life span approach? | Groups have a beginning, growing stage, and ending. |
| Maturity refers to what? | The ability and willingness a group possesses as it moves through the developmental process |
| What is a group's Ability? | A group's collective knowledge, skills, and experience. |
| What is a group's Willingness? | A group's collective motivation and confidence. |
| What provides a popular contribution to understanding group development and the discussion process? | Tuckman's five-phase model. |
| What is Forming? | Members come to the group concerned about individual goals. |
| What is Storming? | Members develop relationships and the group process begins. |
| What is Norming? | Members work together on the task and attempt to get along. |
| What is Performing? | Members ready task for output and evaluation by an external audience. |
| What is Adjourning? | Members reach the end of their involvement together and/or have finished their task. |
| What are Primary tensions? | The anxiety members feel about being in the group and the uncertainty surrounding the roles they will play. |
| What are Secondary tensions? | Members seek to influence others, develop norms and roles, and explore the issues surrounding the task. |
| What is Conformity? | Occurs when a group member agrees with the group's decision because the majority of the group members agree. |
| Explain Deviance. | Occurs when a group member disagrees with the group's decision, even though it goes against the group's norms. |
| What is stated in Gersick's Punctuated Equilibrium model? | Asserted that groups progress through a period of inertia punctuated by a period of concentrated change. |
| Describe Transition. | Occurs when the group members realize they have used half of their time and now must determine how to accomplish the task. |
| What is a Stakeholder? | A person external to the group who has a vested interest in the task. |
| What is a Breakpoint? | Switching from one activity track to another? |
| What is a Normal Breakpoint? | Occurs when a group shifts focus or examines another aspect of a task. |
| What is a Delay Breakpoint? | Occurs when a group decides to reexamine a position or needs to repeat some part of a task. |
| What is a Disruption Breakpoint? | Occurs when conflict forces the group to stop working or failure forces the group to reevaluate its position. |
| What is the Task Process? | Members analyze the task by using various decision-making and problem-solving procedures, engage in critical analysis of the positive and negative consequences of the alternative, or evaluate the implementation of a solution(s). |
| Describe Relational. | Members engage in behaviors that promote member relationships and might determine how to handle conflict. |
| What is Topical Focus? | Members concern themselves with the major issues or themes that emerge at any given point during the group's work that become agenda items. |
| 5 characteristics of group development | How cohesive is the group? How does the group handle conflict? How does the group balance its task and socioemotional needs? How does the group communicate? How involved is the group with its task? |
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