Chapter 2 group dynamics

Question 1

What is a primary affiliation group

Answer 1

Those with people most identify: family or peers

Question 2

What are secondary affiliation groups

Answer 2

Those with which people least identify, such as city or confederation

Question 3

What are group dynamics

Answer 3

The influence of groups on members

Question 4

What is the Hawthorne effect

Answer 4

Changes in behavior as a result of observation and manipulation of conditions in an environment

Question 5

What is group content?

Answer 5

Information within and purpose of the group.

The actual words, ideas, and information exchanged within a group, as well as the purpose of the group

Question 6

What is group process?

Answer 6

Interactions and relationships among members within the group

Is the interaction of group members with one another, often in some meaningful way.

Question 7

What are the seven types of group process

Answer 7

Contagion
Conflict
Anxiety
Consensual validation 
Universality 
Family reenactment 
Instillation of hope

Question 8

What is contagion

Answer 8

Member behavior elicits group interaction

Question 9

What is conflict

Answer 9

Matters invoking conflict usually revolve around significant issues in people’s lives such as authority, intimacy, growth, change, autonomy, power, and loss

Question 10

What are issues of anxiety

Answer 10

The tension involved in anxiety and feeling uneasy feelings with coping with discomfort

Restrictive solution: changing the topic

Enabling solution: open listening and discussion about the anxiety

Question 11

What is consensual validation

Answer 11

Checking ones behavior with a group of others

Question 12

What is universality

Answer 12

It is comforting to know that others within a group have similar experiencing and feelings

Question 13

What is family reenactment

Answer 13

Familia of origin continue to influence people throughout their lives. Issues in childhood sometimes arise due to family dynamics being similar

Question 14

What is instigation of hope

Answer 14

All group members can come to realize that their own issues are resolved me

Question 15

What is social influence

Answer 15

Social influence emerges in a group that manifests itself by altering actions, attitudes, and feelings

Question 16

what is Systems theory?

Answer 16

Systems theory explains that groups members are always deciding between their needs for differentiating themselves, and integrating others. (group leaders orchestrate their effrots in helping members and the group as a whole to balance the individual and collective needs as the group develops

Question 17

What is a linear system?

Answer 17

a cause and effect system

Question 18

What is a systematic system

Answer 18

a system where most factors influence each other in a circular manner

Question 19

What are the steps for preplanning a group?

Answer 19

Clarity of purpose

The group setting

Time management

Group size/ subgrouping

Membership
Goals
Commitment
openness
risk taking
attitudes

Question 20

What is group structure?

Answer 20

Group structure refers to the physical setup of a group and to the interaction of each group member in relation to the group as a whole

Question 21

What is physical structure?

Answer 21

The arrangement of the group members

Question 22

What is the circle format?

Answer 22

Where group members align themselves in a circle

Question 23

What is the chain arrangement?

Answer 23

Where people are positioned or seated along a line

Question 24

What is the wheel arrangement?

Answer 24

an arrangement where there is a center spoke, the leader, where all messages go

Question 25

What is a theater style arrangement?

Answer 25

Where there is seated rows facing the leader

Question 26

What are the 4 main types of group exercises?

Answer 26

Verbal intrapersonal
Verbal interpersonal
Nonverbal intrapersonal
nonverbal interpersonal

Question 27

What is verbal intrapersonal?

Answer 27

example: group members draw pictures of how they perceive the world and using these types of pictures to introduce themselves verbally to the group

Question 28

What is verbal interpersonal?

Answer 28

Example: having group members divide into small groups and discuss their sibling positions; then the group as a whole reassembles and members walk talk about how they view the world based on their past perceptions

Question 29

What is nonverbal intrapersonal

Answer 29

where the leader would talk members through relaxing parts of their body, starting with the feet and ending with the head (members keep their eyes closed the whole time.

Question 30

What is nonverbal interpersonal?

Answer 30

members might line up from most to lead about any concern that is relevant for the group at the moment, such as anxiety

Question 31

What is group interaction?

Answer 31

the way members relate to one another