Group Weaknesses
Groups spend most of the time discussing common knowledge, especially when group members are similar
What is the Common Knowledge Effect?
University where Dr. Nguyen got her PHD
What is UCLA?
Definition of a group
What is a collection of people working together for their own personal goals?
Phenomenon that large numbers of people can be more accurate than a single expert
What is Collective Intelligence? (Wisdom of crowds accepted)
Differences in opinion relating to a task
What is Task Conflict?
A person needing help is ___ likely to receive it the more other people are present.
LESS
State Dr. Nguyen was born in
What is California?
Definition of a team
What is a group of people working together for a common goal or to complete a common task?
Teams work better with different skills, backgrounds, or personalities
What is Diversity?
Any condition that makes conflict healthier
Focus on facts, not opinions
Work with alternatives
Have common goals
use humor, but not sarcasm
Everyone is participating equally and has equal opportunity
Look for compromises
Cohesive groups value consensus too highly, leading to poor decision making
What is Groupthink?
Dr. Nguyen's favorite volleyball team + player
Osaka Blueton, Masato Kai
Complexity, unfamiliarity, requires creativity or innovation, requires or benefited by division of labor
Losses in performance resulting from negative aspects or weaknesses of a group
What is Process Loss?
Conflict within a person
What is Intrapersonal Conflict?
Tendency of members of a group to put in less effort than they would individually
What is Social Loafing?
Who is Jin?
Either of the two models of Group Development (Explain the basic concept, don't need to know the name)
Tuckman model: Groups go through 5 stages during a task: Forming with ice breakers and uncertainty, Storming with conflict and testing, Norming with establishing norms and cohesion, Performing with cooperating and problem solving, and Adjourning
Punctuated Equilibrium model: Groups flounder about for the first half, then realize they need to be faster and quickly transition to high teamwork and focus
Generally the most effective size of a team relative to task size (not a specific number)
Slightly less than the task requires
Type of conflict that is usually not healthy
What is Relationship Conflict?
Extreme/risky decision making
What is Group Polarization?
Dr. Nguyen's favorite anime opening
What is Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2 OP?
Quality that is required for teams that is the biggest distinction between teams and groups
What is Interdependence / Task interdependence
Rank the three types of interdependence from most -> least interdependent
(DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!)
Reciprocal, Sequential, Pooled/Additive
This many workers are assaulted on the job every year in the U.S. (Or this many every week)
One million workers (or 18,000)