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CH1 INTRO TO GROUP DYNAMICS Flashcards

1
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Two or more individuals who are connected by and within social relationships

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Group

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2
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5 Qualities of a Group

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  • Interaction
  • Goals
  • Interdependence
  • Structure
  • Unity
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5 Qualities of a Group

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  • Interaction
  • Goals
  • Interdependence
  • Structure
  • Unity
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4
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Groups that create strategies they will use to accomplish their goals.

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Generating — Planning Tasks

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5
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Create altogether new ideas and approaches to their problems

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Generating — Creativity tasks

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6
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Make decisions about issues that have correct solutions

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Choosing — Intellective task

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Questions that can be answered in many ways

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Choosing — decision-making tasks

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Resolve differences of opinion among members regarding goals/decisions

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Negotiating — cognitive-conflict tasks

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9
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Resolve competitive disputes among members

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Negotiating — mixed-motive tasks

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10
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Do things including taking part in competitions

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Performing — competitive tasks

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Work together to create products or carry our collective actions

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Performing — performance tasks

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12
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complex of roles, norms, and intermember relations that organizes the group

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group structure

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13
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consensual standards that describe what behaviors should and should not be performed in a given context

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norms

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14
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the quality of “groupness” or solidarity

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group cohesion

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15
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how unified the group appears to be to the perceiver

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entitativity

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16
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Types of Groups?

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  1. Primary groups
  2. Social groups
  3. Collectives
  4. Categories
17
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Small, long-term groups characterized by face-to-face and high levels of cohesiveness, solidarity, and member identification

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primary groups

18
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Small groups of moderate duration and permeability characterized by moderate levels of interaction among the members over an extended period of time, often in goal-focused situations

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social groups

19
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Larger groups whose members act in similar and sometimes unusual ways.

Aggregations of individuals that form spontaneously, last only a brief period of time, and have very permeable boundaries.

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collectives

20
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Aggregations of individuals who are similar to one another in some way, such as gender, ethnicity, religion, or nationality

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categories

21
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focused on the person in the group; explore the behavior of each member

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individual-level of analysis

22
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assumes each person is “an element in a larger system, group, organization, or society; reflect the state of the larger system and the events occurring in it.”

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group-level of analysis

23
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hypothetical unifying mental force linking group members together.

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collective conscious (groupmind)

24
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hypothetical unifying mental force linking group members together.

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collective conscious (groupmind)

25
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assumes that the behavior of people in groups is determined by the interaction of the person and the environment.

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interactionism

26
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a unified system with emergent properties that cannot be fully understood by individual examination.

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gestalt

27
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a standard that describes what behaviors should and should not be performed in a group.

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group norms

28
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Group development theory of Bruce Tuckman

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  1. Forming phase
  2. Storming
  3. Norming
  4. Performing
  5. Adjourning
29
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The multilevek persoective of qualities, characteristics, actions of individual members

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micro-level factors

30
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multilevel perspective of group level qualities like cohesiveness, size, composition, and structure

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meso-level factors

31
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multilevel perspective of group level qualities like cohesiveness, size, composition, and structure

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meso-level factors

32
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multilevel perspective of qualities of the larger collectives that enfold the groups

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macro-level factors

33
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4 basuc group goals according to circumplex model of group tasks by mcgrath

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  1. generating
  2. choosing
  3. negotiating
  4. performing/executing

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