Small Group Com Basics
Small group communication usually involves this many people.
What is 3 to 12?
This theory says groups stay attractive as long as the rewards are higher than the costs.
What is Social Exchange Theory?
This is the term for when group members share the same level of commitment to a project.
What is mutuality of concern?
This is the process of using specific examples to reach a general conclusion.
What is inductive reasoning?
These roles focus on the group's feelings and making sure everyone gets along.
What are maintenance roles?
This type of group is formed mainly to meet the human need to relate to others, like a family.
What is a primary group?
This term describes the "extra energy" created when a group is more effective than just adding up its members.
What is synergy?
According to Schutz, this is the human need to be noticed and understood by others.
What is inclusion?
This fallacy happens when you attack a person's character instead of their ideas.
What is Ad Hominem (Attacking the Person)?
This type of power comes from being voted in or appointed to an official job title.
What is legitimate power?
Unlike a group, a team has these overtly stated or written down to help them operate.
What are clearly defined roles, rules, and/or operating procedures?
This theory describes how groups build a personality by sharing stories or "fantasies."
What is Symbolic Convergence Theory?
This attraction factor happens when we like people who have different skills that balance our own.
What is complementarity?
This type of discussion question asks if something is good or bad, or right or wrong.
What is a question of value?
This specific individual role describes a person who is negative and stubborn for no clear reason.
What is a blocker?
This hallmark of an effective team is a target that makes everyone excited and ready to work.
What is a clear, elevating goal?
In Systems Theory, this is the measure of messiness or decay that can cause a group to fall apart.
What is entropy?
We are often attracted to people we are physically close to, a factor known by this name.
What is proximity?
This fallacy makes things too simple by claiming there are only two choices available.
What is the Either/Or fallacy?
This power base is founded on being liked and admired by other group members.
What is referent power?
According to Larson and LaFasto, an effective team must have this organized and efficient system for reaching their outcomes and processing information.
What is a results-driven structure?
This function of theory allows group members to guess what will happen and choose the best actions.
What is the predictive function?
This theory looks at how people use unwritten rules and past experiences to inform how they act.
What is Structuration Theory?
This reasoning mistake happens when someone reaches a conclusion using way too little evidence.
What is a hasty generalization?
In online group discussions, these members are more likely to use first-person pronouns like "I" and "we" along with more exclamation points.
Who are low-status members?