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Question 71

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Research on leadership indicates that:

A) many effective leaders of laboratory groups and large corporations exhibit behaviors that efficiently suppress minority view.
B) effective supervisors tend to score high on both task and social leadership.
C) the most effective leaders typically deviate significantly from a group's standards or norms.
D) transformational leaders lack the capacity to inspire or motivate others to commit themselves to the group's mission.

E) None of the above
F) A) and B)

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Question 72

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Social comparison is more likely to sway responses on:

A) issues that have a factual element.
B) moderate,rather than severe,issues.
C) value-laden judgments.
D) complex,rather than simple issues.

E) B) and C)
F) All of the above

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Question 73

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An example of someone who is involved with co-actors is:

People in ________ cultures exhibit less social loafing than people in ________ cultures.

The process by which certain group members motivate and guide the group is called:

Maggie favors the death penalty.In discussing this issue with some like-minded classmates,she hears arguments for this position that she has never considered before.After the discussion,her opinion is more extreme.This outcome is best explained by:

Which of the following factors contributes to deindividuation?

Sam has a tendency to contribute little effort to group assignments as he thinks others will be sure to pick up the slack in an effort to get a good grade.Social psychologists would call Sam a:

Nicholas,a manager in an international company,is part of a team that decides the sources of their inputs.His company wants to import palm oil for its operations,and he argues that they should import palm oil from Indonesia rather than from the Latin American countries.He shares the cost analysis chart and convinces his team.According to the experiments initiated by Serge Moscovici in Paris,which of the following determinants of minority influence is most likely exhibited by Nicholas in this scenario?

In the context of social facilitation,social arousal facilitates:

Sanders,Baron,and Moore (1978) explained social facilitation by noting that a conflict occurs between paying attention to others and paying attention to the task at hand.They named this explanation:

From their analysis of 60 deindividuation studies,Postmes and Spears (1998) concluded that being anonymous makes an individual ________ than when he or she is alone.

While sitting in a meeting,John is becoming more and more uncomfortable with the group consensus.Not wanting to make waves,though,he withholds his opinion in favor of the group's comfort.This is an example of: