Defining Terms
Two or more individuals who are connected by and within social relations
What are Groups?
Philip G. Zimbardo
Who is the Leader of the Stanford Prison Experiment
The attraction of members to one another and to the group as a whole
What is Social Cohesion
The process by which members of the team combine their knowledge, skills, abilities, and other resources, through a coordinated series of actions, to produce an outcome
What is Teamwork
This term is a group-level process, for it is predicted on differences in members' capacity to influence one another
What is Social Power
The solidarity or unity of a group resulting from the development of strong and mutual interpersonal bonds among group members
What is Group Cohesion?
The Sherifs
Who are the psychologists involved with The Robbers Cave Experiment?
Shared task commitment that motivates members to work together to achieve group goals
What is Task Cohesion
This team won a gold medal against The Soviet Union on February 22, 1980
What is the U.S. Olympic Hockey Team
This results from the majority impacting the minority (Majority influence) and the minority impacting the majority(Minority Influence)
What is Social Influence
Interpersonal processes that occur within and between groups; also, the scientific study of those processes
What is Group Dynamics?
Donelson R. Forsyth
Who is the author of our text book
The affective intensity of the group, often described as collective effervescence
What is Emotional Cohesion
Project groups composed of people with differing types of functional expertise.
What are Cross-Functional Teams
This occurs in a group when the actions or beliefs of one or more members of the group are unacceptable to and resisted by one or more of the other members
What is Conflict
An initiation into a group that subjects the new members to mental or physical discomfort, harassment, embarrassment, ridicule, oy humiliation.
What is Hazing?
The Old Christian's Rugby Team
Who are the Andes Mountain plane crash survivors
This is the group unity based on the structural integrity of the group, including roles and norms
What is Structural Cohesion
The confidence or certainty that other individuals will do what they are supposed to do even in the absence of social surveillance or pressure
What is Interpersonal Trust
A conceptual analysis of the cognitive processes that sustain high-level executive functioning, including attentional focus and self-regulation
What is Attention Restoration Theory (ART)
An explanation of intergroup conflict arguing that hostility caused by environmental circumstances is released by taking hostile actions against members of other social groups.
What is the Scapegoat Theory?
Dr. Alex "Sandy" Pentland
What is The Red Balloon Challenge
The extent to which the group unites it members in a single, unified collective.
What is Collective Cohesion
Instructional methods used to promote the development of interpersonal and teamwork skills in individuals and teams.
What is Team Building
These are implicit, self-generating, and stable standards for a group
What are Norms