Requires group members to analyze and evaluate ideas and information in order to reach sound judements and conclusions.
What is Critical Thinking
100
A binge and purge cycle of information processing.
What is Information Bulimia.
100
Refers to an insufficient amount of information available to a group for decision making purposes
What is Information Underload
100
Interfere with effective group decision making and problem solving.
What is Mindsets.
100
Conclusions about the unknown based on what is known
What is Interferences
200
Occurs when the rate of information flow into a system and/or the complexity of that information exceed the system's processing capacity.
What is Information Overload
200
Screening information, shutting off technology, specializing, becoming selective, limiting the search, and narrowing the search are all ways of coping with this
What is Information Overload
200
Information underload is usually a problem of this
What is too much closedness in a system
200
The tendency to view the world in terms of only two opposing possibilities when other possibilities are available, and to describe this dichotomy in the language of extremes.
What is false dichotomy
200
The potential of a single dramatic example sticking in our minds, prompting us to overvalue such an event and undervalue statistical probabilities of such an event occuring
What is The Vividness Effect
300
A mode of thinking that people engage in when they are deeply involved in a cohesive in-group, when the members' strivings for unanimity override their motivation to realistically appraise alternative courses of action.
What is Groupthink
300
Separating the useful from the useless is an example of this
What is Screening Information
300
Finding the balance between too little and too much information requires this
What is Critical Thinking Skills
300
Playing Devil's Advocate is apart of the 4 step plan combating this
What is Confirmation Bias
300
The group tendency to make a decision after discussion that is more extreme, either risky or more cautious, than the initial preferences of group members
What is Group Polarization
400
A consistent relationships between two or more variables
What is Correlation
400
Knowing more and more about less and less is an example of this
What is Specializing
400
Information underload occurs in groups because
What is An individual member sits on critical information and doesn't share it with the group
400
Being supicious of absolutes combats the problem of this
What is False Dichotomies
400
Another word used for compromise
What is Depolarization
500
When a subgroup develops a counterproposal and defends it side by side with the group's initial proposal.
What is Dialectical Inquiry
500
Hitting off the switch is an example of this
What is Shutting off Technology
500
The general solution to information underload is
What is Greater openness in the lines of communication
500
The invention of superficial, even glib alternative explanations for information that contradicts a belief