ANSWER: Answers Will Vary

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Chapter 1

• Are six people waiting at a bus stop in silence a group?

ANSWER: Answers Will Vary

DIFFICULTY: Easy

REFERENCES: What Are Groups?; 1.1

KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Remember

• Provide and justify your own definition of the term group.

ANSWER: Answers Will Vary

DIFFICULTY: Easy

REFERENCES: What Are Groups?; 1.1

KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Remember

• Explain why you agree or disagree with the following thesis: Dyads (two people) are not groups.

ANSWER: Answers Will Vary

DIFFICULTY: Moderate

REFERENCES: What Are Groups?; 1.1

KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Remember

• What is the difference between a primary group and a social (or secondary) group?

ANSWER: Answers Will Vary

DIFFICULTY: Easy

REFERENCES: What Are Groups?; 1.2

KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Understand

• Pat is a member of APX fraternity and a male. Examine the relative impact of these two groups on Pat’s identity.

ANSWER: Answers Will Vary

DIFFICULTY: Difficult

REFERENCES: What Are Groups?; 1.3

KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Analyze

• You are observing a group of men installing a heating system in a building. What key qualities should you note in your

case study of this work group? Define these qualities and give an example of each for the work group.

ANSWER: Answers Will Vary

DIFFICULTY: Moderate

REFERENCES: What Are Groups?; 1.4

KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Remember

• A group of young men and women meet regularly via the internet to play an online game together. Do they qualify as a

group?

ANSWER: Answers Will Vary

DIFFICULTY: Easy

REFERENCES: What Are Groups?; 1.4

KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Remember

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• What is the relationship between the size of humans' brains and their groups?

ANSWER: Answers Will Vary

DIFFICULTY: Easy

REFERENCES: What Are Groups?; 1.4, 1.5

KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Understand

• What two classes of interaction did Bales find to be the most common in group situations? Provide two examples of

groups that differ on these classes of interaction.

ANSWER: Answers Will Vary

DIFFICULTY: Moderate

REFERENCES: What Are Groups?; 1.4, 1.5

KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Remember

• Members can influence each other in many ways. Describe and demonstrate the difference between unilateral,

sequential, and reciprocal interdependence. Note: A diagram may help.

ANSWER: Answers Will Vary

DIFFICULTY: Easy

REFERENCES: What Are Groups?; 1.4

KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Understand

• Use the concept of group structure to compare primary groups and collectives.

ANSWER: Answers Will Vary

DIFFICULTY: Easy

REFERENCES: What Are Groups?; 1.2, 1.4

KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Evaluate

• Use McGrath’s taxonomy of tasks to compare these four groups: an assembly line, a political committee deciding to

invade Cuba, a company whose members are debating about a potential project, and a ballet troupe.

ANSWER: Answers Will Vary

DIFFICULTY: Easy

REFERENCES: What Are Groups?; 1.4, 1.5

KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Evaluate

• What are the common origins of groups?

ANSWER: Answers Will Vary

DIFFICULTY: Easy

REFERENCES: What Are Groups?; 1.4; 1.5

KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Remember

• Will a passerby who sees six people sitting outside the library think these people are a group? Use the concept of

entitativity to offer an answer.

ANSWER: Answers Will Vary

DIFFICULTY: Moderate

REFERENCES: What Are Groups?; 1.4, 1.5 2 / 4

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KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Apply

• What does the concept of entitativity have to do with prejudice and stereotyping?

ANSWER: Answers Will Vary

DIFFICULTY: Difficult

REFERENCES: What Are Groups?; 1.4

KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Analyze

• Lewin used the word dynamic when describing groups. Why did he select this word? What is the definition of group

dynamics?

ANSWER: Answers Will Vary

DIFFICULTY: Easy

REFERENCES: What Are Group Dynamics?; 1.7

KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Remember

• If your group dynamics class develops like most groups do, what processes and changes do you expect to see take

place during the semester?

ANSWER: Answers Will Vary

DIFFICULTY: Easy

REFERENCES: What Are Group Dynamics?; 1.8

KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Apply

• Draw on Hofstede’s theory of national cultures to describe cultural differences in group-level processes (formation,

influence, performance, and conflict).

ANSWER: Answers Will Vary

DIFFICULTY: Moderate

REFERENCES: Why Study Groups?; 1.9

KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Understand

• Why do individuals often underestimate the influence of groups and their dynamics?

ANSWER: Answers Will Vary

DIFFICULTY: Easy

REFERENCES: Why Study Groups?; 1.10

KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Remember

• Why do psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, and political scientists study groups?

ANSWER: Answers Will Vary

DIFFICULTY: Moderate

REFERENCES: Why Study Groups?; 1.10

KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Remember

• A group is two or more individuals who are connected to one another by and within social relationships.
• True
• False

ANSWER: True 3 / 4

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DIFFICULTY: Easy

REFERENCES: What Are Groups?; 1.1

KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Remember

• By definition, groups involve face-to-face interaction, so online gatherings are not true groups.
• True
• False

ANSWER: False

DIFFICULTY: Easy

REFERENCES: What Are Groups?; 1.1

KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Remember

• Although there is a minimum group size (four people), there is no limit to the maximum number within a group.
• True
• False

ANSWER: False

DIFFICULTY: Easy

REFERENCES: What Are Groups?; 1.1

KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Remember

• Theory and research identify four types of groups: primary groups, social groups, collectives, and categories.
• True
• False

ANSWER: True

DIFFICULTY: Easy

REFERENCES: What Are Groups?; 1.2

KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Remember

• Individuals who share some common attribute, such as all males or all residents of New York, are members of a social

group rather than a primary group.

• True
• False

ANSWER: False

DIFFICULTY: Moderate

REFERENCES: What Are Groups?; 1.2

KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Remember

• Individuals often identify with a group that they belong to but not with the social categories to which they belong.
• True
• False

ANSWER: False

DIFFICULTY: Moderate

REFERENCES: What Are Groups?; 1.3

KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Remember

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