Lesson 6

Question 1

Drawbacks of Brainstorming:

Answer 1

1. Shy people are not willing to speak as much.
2. Social Lazyness
3. Illusion of group productivity

Question 2

Problems of group making decision (Franz, 2012)

Answer 2

1. Strong members/ Unequal power
2. Poor information sharing/ shared info bias
3. Group polarization (decisions taken are more extreme than the original inclination of its members (eg Hooligans)
4. Groupthink

Question 3

Brainstorming

Answer 3

Idea-generation process that specifically encourages any and all alternatives while withholding any criticism of those alternatives

Question 4

Brainwriting

Answer 4

Idea-generation process that limits group discussion and that requires members to write their creative ideas and pass them to other group
members.

Question 5

Production blocking

Answer 5

Tendency for one individual during a group discussion to block or inhibit other people from offering ideas

Question 6

Social loafing

Answer 6

Reduction in motivation and effort that occurs when individuals work together at a group task

Question 7

Ownership bias

Answer 7

Tendency to perceive that the information that is possessed (or provided) is more important than the information shared by others

Question 8

Groupthink

Answer 8

Phenomenon in which the norm for consensus overrides the realistic appraisal of alternative courses of actions

Question 9

Shared information bias

Answer 9

Tendency of group members to discuss more about information that everyone knows rathen than the unique information that only one or a
few members know

Question 10

Nominal group technique

Answer 10

Group decision-making method in which individual members meet face to face to pool their judgements in a systematic but independent
fashion