Chapter 3 Practice Exam

. 1.The main strategies for instilling cohesiveness in groups include

a)developing shared goals

b)accomplishing tasks

c)encouraging compatible membership

d)all of the above

. 2.Conformity

a)should be avoided at all costs because it is socially undesirable

b)encourages entropy

c)is strongest among high status group members

d)None of the above

. 3.There are two principal types of norms

a)explicit and implicit

b)open and closed

c)public and private

d)exposed and unexposed

. 4.Members of your group intensely disagree on a subject of controversy. You're feeling some stress from the unpleasantness triggered by the disagreement, and you're pretty sure other members are feeling the same. This is an example of

a)primary tension

b)secondary tension

c)negative cohesiveness

d)group socialization

. 5.Social loafing is

a)a form of social compensation

b)negative synergy

c)a form of ethnocentrism

d)none of the above

. 6.The output from a group's task dimension is cohesiveness.

a) True

b) False

. 7.The reasons individuals join groups influence the likely outcomes of those groups.

a) True

b) False

. 8.Group effectiveness is dependent on eliminating secondary tension in the group.

a) True

b) False

. 9.Because of the potential for synergy, groups can always outperform individuals.

a) True

b) False

. 10.Secondary tension in a group refers to conflict that repeats itself after the group thought the conflict had been resolved.

a) True

b) False

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