Module 76 - Group Behavior

Question 1

Social facilitation

Answer 1

Improved performance on simple or well-learned tasks in the presence of others

Question 2

Social loafing

Answer 2

The tendency for people in a group to exert less effort and/or feel less accountable when pooling their efforts toward attaining a common goal than when individually accountable

Question 3

Deindividuation

Answer 3

The loss of self-awareness and self-restraint occurring in group situations that foster arousal and anonymity

Question 4

Groupthink

Answer 4

The mode of thinking that occurs when the desire for harmony in a decision-making group overrides a realistic appraisal of alternatives

Question 5

Culture

Answer 5

The enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, values, and traditions shared by a group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next