GROUP DYNAMICS FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Studies of groups making decisions indicate that they spend too little time in the ___ stage of decision-
making. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅orientation
Groupthink is - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅the deterioration of mental and group efficiency
Which is NOT a cause of groupthink? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅apathy
Group polarization is the - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅tendency for the group's decisions to be more
extreme than individuals' decisions.
Joe, Meagan, Allison, and Timothy are ordering a pizza. Someone—no one remembers who—says
"let's have anchovies on it." Joe thinks "gross" but says "okay." Meagan isn't paying any attention.
Allison thinks "I hate anchovies, but I can just pick them off." And Timothy thinks "If that is what Joe
wants, then okay." The group gets a pizza no one likes or wants to eat. This outcome illustrates -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅the Abilene paradox.
Working in groups - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅people prefer to work in the company of others
The Task Circumplex Model - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Joseph McGraths**
Brings order to the many goal-related activities that groups undertake
Generating - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Groups concoct the strategies they will use to accomplish their
goals or create altogether new ideas and approaches to their Problems.
Choosing - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Groups make decisions about issues that have correct solutions or
questions that can be answered in many ways.
Negotiating - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Groups resolve differences of opinion among members regarding
their goals or decisions or settle competitive disputes among members.
, Executing - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅groups do things, including taking part in competitions or creating
some product or carrying out collective actions.
Groups dealing with conceptual task - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅exhibit high levels of information
exchange, social influence, and process oriented activities.
Groups dealing with behavioral task - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅are those that produce things or perform
services.
Variety of Task - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅EX: Hudson River Landing on the Water
Basic Task - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅EX: New York City Emergency, responding to emergenices
Collective Intelligence - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Groups generalized proficiency, or C-Factor
Groups with more Women performed better than those with none. Also those who performed the task
more equally.
When to work in groups
PG 322 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Not ALL task require the skills of a group, but as task become more
challenging and complex the more likely a group will succeed over an individual working by there self.
Level of Difficulty
Complexity
Importance
Process Model of Productivity - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Process Loss= to predict when groups will
perform well or poorly. A reduction of performance effectiveness..
Steiners Law of Group Productivity - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅AP=PP-PL
predicts that actual productivity is determined by a groups potential productivity less all the process
losses the group expectations.
Studies of groups making decisions indicate that they spend too little time in the ___ stage of decision-
making. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅orientation
Groupthink is - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅the deterioration of mental and group efficiency
Which is NOT a cause of groupthink? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅apathy
Group polarization is the - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅tendency for the group's decisions to be more
extreme than individuals' decisions.
Joe, Meagan, Allison, and Timothy are ordering a pizza. Someone—no one remembers who—says
"let's have anchovies on it." Joe thinks "gross" but says "okay." Meagan isn't paying any attention.
Allison thinks "I hate anchovies, but I can just pick them off." And Timothy thinks "If that is what Joe
wants, then okay." The group gets a pizza no one likes or wants to eat. This outcome illustrates -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅the Abilene paradox.
Working in groups - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅people prefer to work in the company of others
The Task Circumplex Model - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Joseph McGraths**
Brings order to the many goal-related activities that groups undertake
Generating - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Groups concoct the strategies they will use to accomplish their
goals or create altogether new ideas and approaches to their Problems.
Choosing - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Groups make decisions about issues that have correct solutions or
questions that can be answered in many ways.
Negotiating - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Groups resolve differences of opinion among members regarding
their goals or decisions or settle competitive disputes among members.
, Executing - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅groups do things, including taking part in competitions or creating
some product or carrying out collective actions.
Groups dealing with conceptual task - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅exhibit high levels of information
exchange, social influence, and process oriented activities.
Groups dealing with behavioral task - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅are those that produce things or perform
services.
Variety of Task - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅EX: Hudson River Landing on the Water
Basic Task - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅EX: New York City Emergency, responding to emergenices
Collective Intelligence - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Groups generalized proficiency, or C-Factor
Groups with more Women performed better than those with none. Also those who performed the task
more equally.
When to work in groups
PG 322 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Not ALL task require the skills of a group, but as task become more
challenging and complex the more likely a group will succeed over an individual working by there self.
Level of Difficulty
Complexity
Importance
Process Model of Productivity - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Process Loss= to predict when groups will
perform well or poorly. A reduction of performance effectiveness..
Steiners Law of Group Productivity - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅AP=PP-PL
predicts that actual productivity is determined by a groups potential productivity less all the process
losses the group expectations.
