CH4 GROUP FORMATION

Question 1

oriented primarily
toward social experiences

Answer 1

extraversion

Question 2

degree to which
one’s values, attitudes and outlooks
emphasize, and facilitate
establishing and maintaining
connections to others

Answer 2

relationality

Question 3

3 needs of social motivation

Answer 3

1. need for affiliation
2. need for power
3. need for intimacy

Question 4

feeling of
apprehension and embarrassment
experienced when anticipating or
actually interacting with other
people

Answer 4

social anxiety

Question 5

one’s basic
cognitive, emotional, and behavioral
orientation when in a relationship
with others

Answer 5

attachment style

Question 6

two types of attachment styles

Answer 6

1. anxious
2. avoidant

Question 7

most likely to seek groups
in experiences and preferences

Answer 7

Many Positive Prior Experiences

Question 8

may be
uncertain to join groups
in experience and preference

Answer 8

Little Prior Experiences

Question 9

may
avoid groups

Answer 9

Negative Prior Experiences

Question 10

choose
to join other people to gain the
information they need to allay their
anxiety

Answer 10

misery loves company

Question 11

seek out those who face the same
threat and are knowledgeable

Answer 11

misery loves miserable company

Question 12

results in inhibition

Answer 12

Embarrassed Misery Avoids
Company

Question 13

a type of social comparison selecting targets who are worse off
than they are to protect self-esteem

Answer 13

Downward Social Comparison

Question 14

a type of social comparison that a
person compares him/herself to
others who are better off than s/he
is.

Answer 14

Upward Social Comparison

Question 15

6 principles of attraction

Answer 15

1. proximity principle
2. elaboration principle
3. similarity principle
4. complementarity principle
5. reciprocity principle
6. minimax principle

Question 16

a principle of attraction where people join
groups that just happen to be close
by.

Answer 16

proximity principle

Question 17

a principle of attraction where tendency
for groups to expand as members
form dyadic associations with
someone who is not in the group
and thereby draw the nonmember
into the group.

Answer 17

elaboration principle

Question 18

a principle of attraction where people are
attracted to those who are similar to
them in some way.

Answer 18

similarity principle

Question 19

a principle of attraction where tendency forgroup members to like
people who are dissimilar to them in
ways that complement their personal
qualities.

Answer 19

complementarity principle

Question 20

a principle of attraction where tendency
for liking to be me with liking in
return.

Answer 20

reciprocity principle

Question 21

a principle of attraction where people join
groups and remain in groups that
provide them with the maximum
number of valued rewards while
incurring the minimum number of
possible costs.

Answer 21

minimax principle

Question 22

a principle of attraction where people join
groups and remain in groups that
provide them with the maximum
number of valued rewards while
incurring the minimum number of
possible costs.

Answer 22

minimax principle