Group Dynamics and Roles
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What is the primary responsibility of leaders in a group according to interactionist theories?

  • Making sure roles are filled (correct)
  • Maintaining relationships among members
  • Fulfilling the demands of their roles
  • Negotiating roles with group members

    • What is the term for influencing others' social perceptions by selectively revealing personal information?

  • Role-taking
  • Role enchantment
  • Self-presentation (correct)
  • Social manipulation

    • According to Sigmund Freud, what influences our actions in a group besides rational plans and motives?

  • Social expectations
  • Unconscious interpersonal processes (correct)
  • Conscious psychological processes
  • Group norms

    • What is the name of the model developed by Robert Bales to study group dynamics?

    <p>SYMLOG</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the first dimension considered in Bales' SYMLOG model?

    <p>Dominance or submissive</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for perceiving the role requirements of other group members' roles by taking their perspective?

    <p>Role-taking</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What can negatively impact an individual's willingness to choose group therapy in the future?

    <p>Having a negative experience in a therapeutic group</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a benefit of children seeing their parents participate in civic and volunteer associations?

    <p>Increased likelihood of the child joining a group later</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a characteristic of a social movement?

    <p>It is a deliberate, sustained, and organized effort to bring change</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the proximity principle in the context of group formation?

    <p>The tendency to form relationships with those who are nearby</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a key component of a collaborative circle?

    <p>A shared conception of methods and goals</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is not a characteristic of a social movement?

    <p>It is sustained by businesses or governments</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What happens when a group faces a difficult issue or experience and does not explicitly adopt standards?

    <p>Members will gradually align their behaviors with commonly accepted behavioral practices.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is social tuning?

    <p>The tendency for individuals' actions and evaluations to become more similar to those around them.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What happens to the scope of roles in a group as the number of roles increases?

    <p>The scope of roles decreases.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a characteristic of norms in a group?

    <p>They are both consensual and internalized.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What can be said about the emergence of norms in a group?

    <p>It can occur rapidly.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is necessary for a more reasonable norm to develop in a group?

    <p>Group membership must change five or six times.</p> Signup and view all the answers

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