Course Summary

Question 1

Wisdom of teams

Answer 1

Teams often outperform individuals! Synergy is created and the sum can be greater than the parts

BUT: many teams fails to achieve their potential due to a variety of “process losses”

Question 2

Common information effect

Answer 2

teams tend to spend too little time discussing unshared (unique) information

Question 3

Why do some teams have higher CI?

Answer 3

Group composition– more members with high social perceptiveness/sensitivity

Group communication– equal speaking time

Question 4

Pluralistic ignorance

Answer 4

Drive for consensus mistakenly think everyone wants one thing

Question 5

Groupthink symptoms

Answer 5

Overestimation of group, self censorship, escalation of commitment

Question 6

Dual process model

Answer 6

When a moral decision needs to be made, there are cognitive and emotional processes in conflict

Question 7

deontology

Answer 7

focuses on the rightness or wrongness of actions themselves

Question 8

Utilitarianism

Answer 8

focuses on the rightness or wrongness of the consequences of those actions

Question 9

Advocacy effect

Answer 9

begin to sympathize with own POV

Question 10

Pseudo-Efficacy

Answer 10

donations decrease
when you include overwhelming statistics because the positive feelings of potentially helping someone are overshadowed by large # of ppl who still need help