Group Dynamics 7th Edition By Forsyth - Test Bank Instant Download - Complete Test Bank With Answers Sample Questions Are Posted Below 1. What is group cohesion? ANSWER: Answers Will Vary POINTS: 1 DIFFICULTY: Moderate REFERENCES: Sources of Cohesion; 5.1 QUESTION TYPE: Essay HAS VARIABLES: False KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Remember DATE CREATED: 11/9/2017 10:29 AM DATE MODIFIED: …
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1. What is group cohesion?
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2. What is the difference between interpersonal attraction and cohesion?
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3. Compare these five bases of cohesion: social cohesion, task cohesion, collective, emotional, and structural cohesion.
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4. Apply the multi-component concept of cohesion to these three types of groups: a group of friends, a family, and a sports team.
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5. Compare the concept of cohesion to the concept of entitativity.
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6. Summarize the methods used and findings obtained by the Sherifs in their study of cohesion in small groups of boys at a summer camp.
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7. Why do many military groups spend time marching in formation?
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8. Describe and give examples of observational and self-report methods for measuring group cohesion.
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9. The group you are leading seems apathetic, and members do not work well together. What methods could you use to increase their cohesiveness?
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10. Summarize Tuckman’s five-stage model of group development, naming and giving an example of each stage he identifies.
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11. Explain why you agree with or disagree with the following statement: “Conflict is destructive to groups and should be avoided if possible.”
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12. Compare and contrast successive-stage theories of group development and cyclical models of development.
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13. Trace the development of a group you once belonged to (for example, a class you took last semester). Make note of the extent to which the group experienced each stage described by Tuckman. Which of the two theories of group development—Tuckman’s stage model or Bale’s equilibrium model—best describes your group?
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14. What are consequences (positive and negative) of working in cohesive groups?
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15. Drawing on meta-analytic findings, explain the causal relationships between cohesion and performance in task-focused groups over time.
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16. You are about to do a study of the relationship between team performance and team cohesiveness with soccer teams. Describe your predictions and the methods you plan to use.
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17. Use the theory of cognitive dissonance to explain why members of a group may support a leader even after the leader has made a series of serious errors.
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18. Summarize the methods and findings of Aronson and Mill’s study of initiation.
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19. Critique the use of hazing to increase the cohesion of fraternities and sororities on college campuses (using research evidence).
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20. How did Herb Brooks increase the cohesiveness of the U.S. Olympic Hockey Team?
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21. Cohesion, properly defined, is the attraction that takes place between individuals and does not entail attraction to the group.
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22. Cohesiveness is such a complex concept that it cannot be defined.
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23. Equifinality, in systems theory, is the potential to reach a given end state through any one of number of means.
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24. A group’s cohesion derives from one primary source: interpersonal attraction.
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25. Social identity theory suggests that even large groups, such as ethnic groups and nationalities, can be cohesive.
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26. Collective efficacy is not just optimism, but members’ shared belief that the group is capable of effectively enacting the activities necessary for successful performance.
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27. Increases in attraction between individual members tends to lower the group’s overall social cohesion.
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28. Relational cohesion theory, like cognitive dissonance theory, argues that people tend to become more committed to their groups when the group causes members to experience negative, rather than positive, emotions.
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29. Open groups tend to be more cohesive than closed groups.
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30. Group rituals, such as marching together, increase team work but lower overall group cohesion.
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31. The core stages of Tuckman’s model of group development are (in order): forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning.
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32. Tentative communication and concern for ambiguity typify the orientation level of group development.
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33. Groups perform more effectively early in their development rather than later, since motivation to work wanes over time.
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34. If a group is to succeed, it is important that it does not enter a stage of conflict.
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35. The successive stage theory states that groups repeatedly cycle through the stages of development as the group matures.
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36. According to the punctuated equilibrium model of group development, groups change gradually over time as they move through stages of orientation, conflict, structuration, and productivity.
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37. In general, cohesive groups outperform groups without cohesion.
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38. Although performance can create a small level of cohesion, high cohesion is what causes higher levels of performance, not vice versa.
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39. Cognitive dissonance is an adverse psychological state that occurs when an individual simultaneously holds two conflicting cognitions.
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40. If hazing increases an individual’s investment in the group, it can increase loyalty to the group.
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41. What was the one characteristic of the U.S. Hockey Team that contributed the most to their win over the Russians?
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42. The systems theory concept of equifinality suggests
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43. A multicomponent approach to cohesion assumes
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44. Who defined group cohesion as “the total field of forces which act on members to remain in the group”?
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45. Liking for the group is ___ cohesion, whereas high levels of goal-focused team work is ___ cohesion.
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46. Which of the following statements is true?
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47. Which one illustrates the multilevel nature of cohesion?
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48. Thomas believes that a group is cohesive when it is marked by strong positive bonds of affection between members of a group. Thomas considers cohesion to be
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49. The group is high in ___ cohesion, for all the members are personally committed to doing their part to help the group reach its goals.
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50. For a group to have high collective efficacy
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51. Which of the following is most closely associated with task cohesion?
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52. Which of the following statements is true?
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53. The group is high in ___ cohesion, for it gives members a feeling of belongingness, “weness,” and inclusion.
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54. Coach Brooks wanted to build the team’s collective cohesion, so he:
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55. Which of the following statements is true?
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56. Collective cohesion is to ___ as structural cohesion is to ___.
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57. Which of the following fits least well with the others?
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58. Which of the following statements is true?
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59. Relational cohesion theory argues that
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60. According to the Sherifs’ studies of cohesion conducted with young boys attending summer camps
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61. ___ groups tend to be more cohesive than ___ groups.
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62. Which of the following statements is true?
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63. Which of the following is NOT a currently accepted component of a multilevel conception of cohesion?
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64. Cohesiveness can be measured by
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65. Elizabeth measures how groups change and evolve over time. She studies
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66. The stages in Tuckman’s group development model are, in order,
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67. Which of the following is NOT one of the stages identified by Tuckman in his theory of group development?
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68. When you are traveling by plane, what stage would you like your cockpit crew to have attained?
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69. Which is one of the stages of development identified by Tuckman?
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70. Conflict is to the ____ stage as increased cohesion is to the ____ stage.
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71. People in a group are nervous, very quiet, and overly polite because they have only just met one another. The group is
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72. Several experts who study group development believe that
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73. Group structures, like roles and authority hierarchies, develop during the ____ stage.
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74. The U.S. Hockey team, when it played the Russians, was likely at the ___ stage of development.
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75. Which statement describes a group at the orientation, or forming, stage of development?
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76. A police task force working to reduce violent crime lacked cohesion initially, and even spent several months embroiled in conflict. Gradually, it became better organized and more effective. Members worked together well for several years, then the group disbanded. The task force’s development is consistent with a ___ model.
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77. Bales’ equilibrium model (which argues that, over time, the group oscillates between task and interpersonal concerns) is an example of a ___ model.
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78. The Strikers, a soccer team, goes through periods where members play well and show great unity, but between these phases they tend to experience periods of internal conflict. The Striker’s development is consistent with a ___ model.
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79. A campus group that was trying to prevent hazing discussed its options for several years. However, when a student died from hazing, the group became more unified and productive, and eventually it changed the campus’s attitude toward hazing. The task force’s development is MOST consistent with a ___ model.
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80. ____ is greater in noncohesive groups than in cohesive groups.
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81. Which of the following statements is most accurate?
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82. Which of the following statements is true?
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83. Research suggests that the cohesion-performance relationship is:
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84. Which of the following statements is most accurate?
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85. Cohesion enhances group performance when
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86. Which of the following statements is most accurate?
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87. The famous case study of the group of true believers that formed around the psychic Marion Keech conducted by Festinger and his colleagues indicated that
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88. An initiation becomes a form of hazing when:
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89. The Aronson and Mills study of severity of initiation supported ___ theory by finding that increased costs lead to increased liking for the group.
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90. Which of the following statements is true?
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