Information groups receive and use to modify themselves
What is feedback
100
The process of creating meaning in the minds of others
What is Group Communication?
Ch. 2 pg. 45
100
5 People in a group
What is the Optimum Group Size?
100
A technique that helps to graphically identify the underlying causes of a problem
What is Fishbone technique
100
Being descriptive, specific, and focusing on behavior rather than the person are all characteristics of this?
What is constructive feedback
200
Our need to influence, lead and develop power over others or to influence, be led or have others exert power over us
What is control
200
We use these to get our point across, to persuade another, to prompt action, or simply to have fun
What are intentional messages?
Ch. 2 pg. 46
200
The decreased effort of each member in the group
What is Social Loafing?
200
Model of small group interaction consists of relevant background factors, internal influences, and consequences
What is The Tubs Model
200
This group task member role offers facts or generalizations that are authorative or relates to his or her own pertinent experience to the group problems.
What is the Information Giver
300
A leadership style that enables group members to utilize their talents, abilities and knowledge more effectively
What is Empowerment
300
The two most important types of visual cues
What are facial expressions and eye contact?
Ch. 2 pg. 48
300
The distance from 18 inches to 4 feet
What is Personal Distance?
300
A decision making strategy that combines examining a problem comprehensively and part by part
What is Mixed scanning
300
This group task member role prods the group to action or decision and attempts to stimulate or arouse the group to “greater” or “higher quality” activity.
What is the Energizer
400
Our need for belonging, feeling a part of, and being together with others
What is Inclusion
400
Offering facts or generalizations based on experience or authoritive sources
What is information giving?
Ch. 2 pg. 84
400
The idea that groups are made up of people who are related to one another in a number of ways
What is Group Structure?
400
Divergent thinking and convergent thinking are two phases of
What is Creative thinking
400
This group building and maintenance member role mediates the differences between other members, attempts to reconcile the disagreements, and relieves tension in conflict situations through jesting or pouring oil on troubled waters.
What is the Harmonizer
500
Specialization that occurs among people in small group communication
What is Differentiation
500
The study of the general nature of morals and of the specific moral choices made by a person
What is an example of Casual and/or Social Groups?
500
Founded by John Nash
What is Game theory
500
This group building and maintenance member role goes along with the movement of the group, more or less passively accepting the ideas of others, and being an audience in group discussion and decisions.