Chapter 8: Groups and Leaders

Test Bank

Multiple Choice

1. A group’s culture is reflected in its members’ ______.

a. intrapsychic communication

b. language and special terms

c. individual values

d. task

Learning Objective: 8.2: List the key characteristics of a group.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Characteristics of Groups

Difficulty Level: Hard

2. Informal power is ______.

a. always held by the designated leader

b. sometimes based on communication competence

c. based only on roles

d. decided by majority rule

Learning Objective: 8.5: Differentiate types of leadership power.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Leadership Power

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. A leader who focuses on getting the job done, keeps members on track, and follows a strict agenda is identified as a ______.

a. socioemotional leader

b. team leader

c. task leader

d. motivational leader

Learning Objective: 8.4: List the styles of group leadership.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Leadership Styles

Difficulty Level: Easy

4. A leader who pays attention to members’ feelings, comfort, and satisfaction with outcomes is identified as a ______.

a. socioemotional leader

b. team leader

c. task leader

d. motivational leader

Learning Objective: 8.4: List the styles of group leadership.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Leadership Styles

Difficulty Level: Easy

5. The punishments for violating group norms are called ______.

a. in-grouping

b. wagon-circling

c. sanctioning

d. emancipating

Learning Objective: 8.2: List the key characteristics of a group.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Characteristics of Groups

Difficulty Level: Easy

6. A part that fits in with the parts other people play in a performance is a ______.

a. sanction

b. role

c. disruption

d. assimilation

Learning Objective: 8.2: List the key characteristics of a group.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Characteristics of Groups

Difficulty Level: Easy

7. A role that functions to encourage group members and to develop and maintain positive communication and relationships among group members is a ______.

a. task role

b. subrole

c. disruptive role

d. social role

Learning Objective: 8.2: List the key characteristics of a group.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Characteristics of Groups

Difficulty Level: Easy

8. A shared pattern of interactions that reflects and guides beliefs, values, and attitudes of the group is known as a ______.

a. group role

b. group cohesiveness

c. group culture

d. group assessment

Learning Objective: 8.2: List the key characteristics of a group.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Characteristics of Groups

Difficulty Level: Easy

9. A networking group is distinguished from other types of groups in the chapter because membership is ______.

a. restricted

b. invited

c. specific

d. not defined

Learning Objective: 8.1: Determine what makes a collection of people into “a group.”

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Types of Groups

Difficulty Level: Medium

10. Cells of disgruntled group members who feel undervalued, mistreated, disrespected, not included, or overlooked are referred to as ______.

a. out-groups

b. in-groups

c. shunnees

d. sanctions

Learning Objective: 8.2: List the key characteristics of a group.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Characteristics of Groups

Difficulty Level: Easy

11. A formal group is distinguished from other types of groups because it ______.

a. focuses on advising, comforting, and raising consciousness on issues

b. evaluates or creates new concepts or products

c. produces a best solution for a problem

d. helps to run an organization

Learning Objective: 8.1: Determine what makes a collection of people into “a group.”

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Types of Groups

Difficulty Level: Medium

12. An advisory group is distinguished from other types of groups because it ______.

a. focuses on advising, comforting, and raising consciousness on issues

b. evaluates or creates new concepts or products

c. produces a best solution for a problem

d. builds or sustains relationships

Learning Objective: 8.1: Determine what makes a collection of people into “a group.”

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Types of Groups

Difficulty Level: Hard

13. A creative group is distinguished from other types of groups because it ______.

a. focuses on advising, comforting, and raising consciousness on issues

b. evaluates or creates new concepts or products

c. produces a best solution for a problem

d. builds or sustains relationships

Learning Objective: 8.1: Determine what makes a collection of people into “a group.”

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Types of Groups

Difficulty Level: Easy

14. Which of the following is NOT representative of both Tuckman’s and Fisher’s models of group development?

a. Development and decision making is a linear process.

b. Communication is frequently taken for granted.

c. Relationships tend to be absent altogether.

d. The models contain four stages.

Learning Objective: 8.3: Identify how groups form and make decisions.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Group Development and Decision Making

Difficulty Level: Medium

15. Group commitment is most evident when group members ______.

a. are not dedicated to their shared goal

b. demonstrate concern for each others’ well-being

c. strive for individual recognition

d. disrespect each other

Learning Objective: 8.2: List the key characteristics of a group.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Characteristics of Groups

Difficulty Level: Medium

16. Group expectations about behavior ______.

a. always require mutual respect

b. never break down individuality

c. set norms for how members interact

d. never involve punishment

Learning Objective: 8.2: List the key characteristics of a group.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Characteristics of Groups

Difficulty Level: Easy

17. Group roles that function in opposition to group productivity and cohesion are referred to as ______ roles.

a. counteractive

b. disruptive

c. informal

d. social

Learning Objective: 8.2: List the key characteristics of a group.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Characteristics of Groups

Difficulty Level: Medium

18. Professor Johnson is known to be the chair of the faculty promotions committee. Professor Johnson possesses which kind of power based on this information?

a. Legitimate

b. Coercive

c. Referent

d. Renown

Learning Objective: 8.5: Differentiate types of leadership power.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Leadership Power

Difficulty Level: Easy

19. Irving Janis identified groupthink as a phenomenon that occurs in groups that are ______.

a. more concerned with making good decisions than with getting along

b. equally concerned with making good decisions and getting along

c. more concerned with getting along than with making good decisions

d. more concerned with making good decisions than with making money

Learning Objective: 8.2: List the key characteristics of a group.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Characteristics of Groups

Difficulty Level: Medium

20. Cohesiveness, or the ability of group members to work in unison, is ______.

a. always desirable in a group

b. desirable if it does not lead to groupthink

c. desirable if it helps members create romantic relationships

d. never desirable in a group

Learning Objective: 8.2: List the key characteristics of a group.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Characteristics of Groups

Difficulty Level: Medium

21. Examples of ______ groups include congressional committees, debate clubs, and shareholder meetings.

a. advisory

b. formal

c. creative

d. networking

Learning Objective: 8.1: Determine what makes a collection of people into “a group.”

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Types of Groups

Difficulty Level: Medium

22. Examples of ______ groups include chat rooms and social media outlets like Twitter and Facebook.

a. advisory

b. formal

c. creative

d. networking

Learning Objective: 8.1: Determine what makes a collection of people into “a group.”

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Types of Groups

Difficulty Level: Medium

23. Examples of ______ groups include focus groups and test-bed groups for developing specifications and criteria for complex projects.

a. advisory

b. formal

c. creative

d. networking

Learning Objective: 8.1: Determine what makes a collection of people into “a group.”

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Types of Groups

Difficulty Level: Medium

24. Examples of ______ groups include sorority and fraternity social affairs committees, homecoming committees, and juries.

a. advisory

b. formal

c. creative

d. networking

Learning Objective: 8.1: Determine what makes a collection of people into “a group.”

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Types of Groups

Difficulty Level: Medium

25. Examples of ______ groups include Alcoholics Anonymous, breast cancer survivors, and study groups.

a. advisory

b. formal

c. support

d. networking

Learning Objective: 8.1: Determine what makes a collection of people into “a group.”

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Types of Groups

Difficulty Level: Medium

26. The group establishes its procedures to move more formally toward a solution in the ______ stage of group development.

a. storming

b. forming

c. norming

d. performing

Learning Objective: 8.3: Identify how groups form and make decisions.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Group Development and Decision Making

Difficulty Level: Medium

27. The group determines leadership and roles of its members in the ______ stage of group development.

a. storming

b. forming

c. norming

d. performing

Learning Objective: 8.3: Identify how groups form and make decisions.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Group Development and Decision Making

Difficulty Level: Medium

28. The group comes into existence and seeks direction from a leader about the nature of its tasks and procedures in the ______ stage of group development.

a. storming

b. forming

c. norming

d. performing

Learning Objective: 8.3: Identify how groups form and make decisions.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Group Development and Decision Making

Difficulty Level: Medium

29. Having established how it will perform its task, the group now does so in the ______ stage of group development.

a. storming

b. forming

c. norming

d. performing

Learning Objective: 8.3: Identify how groups form and make decisions.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Group Development and Decision Making

Difficulty Level: Medium

30. In the ______ stage of Fisher’s Model of Group Progression, the group explicitly consolidates consensus to complete the task, or the leader may do it for the group by thanking everyone.

a. orientation

b. reinforcement

c. emergence

d. conflict

Learning Objective: 8.3: Identify how groups form and make decisions.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Group Development and Decision Making

Difficulty Level: Medium

31. In the ______ stage of Fisher’s Model of Group Progression, the group argues about possible ways of approaching the problem and begins to seek solutions.

a. orientation

b. reinforcement

c. emergence

d. conflict

Learning Objective: 8.3: Identify how groups form and make decisions.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Group Development and Decision Making

Difficulty Level: Medium

32. In the ______ stage of Fisher’s Model of Group Progression, group members get to know one another and come to grips with the problems they have convened to deal with.

a. orientation

b. reinforcement

c. emergence

d. conflict

Learning Objective: 8.3: Identify how groups form and make decisions.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Group Development and Decision Making

Difficulty Level: Medium

33. The ______ stage of Fisher’s Model of Group Progression occurs when some daylight of consensus begins to dawn, and the group sees the emergence of possible agreement.

a. orientation

b. reinforcement

c. emergence

d. conflict

Learning Objective: 8.3: Identify how groups form and make decisions.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Group Development and Decision Making

Difficulty Level: Medium

34. According to French and Raven’s power bases, ______ power is created by a person’s office rank or official status.

a. legitimate

b. coercive

c. referent

d. renown

Learning Objective: 8.5: Differentiate types of leadership power.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Leadership Power

Difficulty Level: Easy

35. According to French and Raven’s power bases, ______ power is created through special knowledge of a particular topic.

a. legitimate

b. coercive

c. referent

d. expert

Learning Objective: Differentiate types of leadership power.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Leadership Power

Difficulty Level: Easy

36. Examples of behaviors related to ______ roles include encouraging quiet group members to speak, praising the contributions of group members, relieving tension, and managing conflict among group members.

a. counteractive

b. disruptive

c. informal

d. social

Learning Objective: 8.2: List the key characteristics of a group.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Characteristics of Groups

Difficulty Level: Medium

37. Examples of behaviors related to ______ roles include withdrawing from the group or avoiding discussions, calling attention to oneself, and getting the group off-topic by discussing unrelated matters.

a. counteractive

b. disruptive

c. informal

d. social

Learning Objective: 8.2: List the key characteristics of a group.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Characteristics of Groups

Difficulty Level: Medium

38. ______ communication works toward moving the agenda along and keeping people on track.

a. Disruptive

b. Counteractive

c. Prosocial

d. Promotive

Learning Objective: 8.2: List the key characteristics of a group.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Group Culture

Difficulty Level: Medium

39. ______ communication does not help the group at all, except in the sense that it may raise morale or lower tension in the group; nor does it push the group forward toward achieving its goals.

a. Disruptive

b. Counteractive

c. Prosocial

d. Promotive

Learning Objective: 8.2: List the key characteristics of a group.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Group Culture

Difficulty Level: Medium

40. ______ communication gets the group back on track by reminding its members of its purposes or boundaries.

a. Disruptive

b. Counteractive

c. Prosocial

d. Promotive

Learning Objective: 8.2: List the key characteristics of a group.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Group Culture

Difficulty Level: Medium

41. ______ refers to everyone relying on everyone else to do a specific part of the overall job well.

a. Commitment

b. Groupthink

c. Cohesiveness

d. Interdependence

Learning Objective: 8.2: List the key characteristics of a group.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Characteristics of Groups

Difficulty Level: Medium

42. A person helping the group focus by telling a story about how someone solved a similar problem is an example of ______ communication.

a. disruptive

b. counteractive

c. prosocial

d. promotive

Learning Objective: 8.2: List the key characteristics of a group.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Group Culture

Difficulty Level: Medium

Multiple Response

1. SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. What are the problems with the concept that leadership involves a formal position and that its activities include similar activities?

a. Leadership differs across domains.

b. All levels of leadership are the same.

c. Different groups employ various levels of formality.

d. People progress through leadership roles in various ways.

Learning Objective: 8.4: List the styles of group leadership.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Leadership

Difficulty Level: Hard

2. SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. These features do NOT exist in creative groups.

a. The assignment of a leader

b. Criticism of other group members

c. Focus on a task

d. A formal structure

Learning Objective: 8.1: Determine what makes a collection of people into “a group.”

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Types of Groups

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. Select the phases in Aubrey Fisher’s model.

a. Emergence

b. Conflict

c. Confusion

d. Supplementing

Learning Objective: 8.3: Identify how groups form and make decisions.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Group Development and Decision Making

Difficulty Level: Hard

4. SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. The key components in the study of leadership are ______.

a. leadership ethics

b. leadership vision

c. leadership division

d. leadership power

Learning Objective: 8.4: List the styles of group leadership.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Leadership

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. In addition to information and formal leadership power, what are the more specific types of leadership power?

a. Illegitimate

b. Coercive

c. Referent

d. Reward

e. Expert

Learning Objective: 8.5: Differentiate types of leadership power.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Leadership

Difficulty Level: Medium

6. SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. What are some of the characteristic elements of groups?

a. Cultures

b. Norms

c. Independence

d. Cohesiveness

Learning Objective: 8.2: List the key characteristics of a group.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Characteristics of Groups

Difficulty Level: Medium

7. SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. What are the requirements of a group?

a. They require fewer than three people.

b. They cannot be too large or people won’t be able to fully contribute.

c. They require at least three people.

d. They are more than just a collection of people.

Learning Objective: 8.1: Determine what makes a collection of people into “a group.”

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: What Is a Group?

Difficulty Level: Medium

8. SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. Of the following events, which ones are examples of instances groupthink occurred?

a. Watergate Scandal

b. Mistakes at Pearl Harbor

c. The 1990 decision to invade Iraq

d. Challenger disaster

Learning Objective: 8.2: List the key characteristics of a group.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Characteristics of Groups

Difficulty Level: Medium

True/False

1. Creative groups are groups made up solely of writers, artists, and performers.

Learning Objective: 8.1: Determine what makes a collection of people into “a group.”

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: What Is a Group?

Difficulty Level: Easy

2. One evident norm or rule in a prison organization is the expectation of hierarchy.

Learning Objective: 8.2: List the key characteristics of a group.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Characteristics of Groups

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. Groupthink refers to group members placing a higher priority on keeping the process running smoothly than on voicing opinions that contradict the majority opinion or that of the leader.

Learning Objective: 8.2: List the key characteristics of a group.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Characteristics of Groups

Difficulty Level: Easy

4. Any collection or assembly of people can be defined as a group, according to your text’s authors.

Learning Objective: 8.1: Determine what makes a collection of people into “a group.”

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: What Is a Group?

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. Interdependence means that everyone in a group works in a solitary fashion and only is concerned with his or her part of a project.

Learning Objective: 8.2: List the key characteristics of a group.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Characteristics of Groups

Difficulty Level: Medium

6. Certain types of groups are less structured and less formal than others.

Learning Objective: 8.2: List the key characteristics of a group.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Characteristics of Groups

Difficulty Level: Easy

7. The purpose of support groups is to help run an organization.

Learning Objective: 8.1: Determine what makes a collection of people into “a group.”

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: What Is a Group?

Difficulty Level: Medium

8. Networking groups always use face-to-face communication.

Learning Objective: 8.1: Determine what makes a collection of people into “a group.”

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: What Is a Group?

Difficulty Level: Easy

9. Socioemotional leaders focus on group member satisfaction and well-being.

Learning Objective: 8.4: List the styles of group leadership.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Leadership

Difficulty Level: Easy

10. Shunning or excluding people from participation in the group, or not even acknowledging their presence, is a very powerful social, relational, and communicative punishment.

Learning Objective: 8.2: List the key characteristics of a group.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Characteristics of Groups

Difficulty Level: Medium

11. Group culture reflects shared patterns of interactions both indicating and guiding beliefs, values, and attitudes of the group.

Learning Objective: 8.2: List the key characteristics of a group.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Characteristics of Groups

Difficulty Level: Easy

12. Sometimes a group requires more task leadership and sometimes a group requires more socioemotional leadership.

Learning Objective: 8.4: List the styles of group leadership.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Leadership Styles

Difficulty Level: Medium

13. Out-group members can be either disruptive or constructive.

Learning Objective: 8.2: List the key characteristics of a group.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Characteristics of Groups

Difficulty Level: Medium

14. Leadership is a relational process, not a personal trait.

Learning Objective: 8.4: List the styles of group leadership.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Leadership Styles

Difficulty Level: Medium

15. Leadership is embedded not in a person but in communication and relationships between people.

Learning Objective: 8.4: List the styles of group leadership.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Leadership Styles

Difficulty Level: Medium

16. French and Raven teach that these designated leader powers can be undermined by the existence and use of other kinds of relational power.

Learning Objective: 8.4: List the styles of group leadership.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Leadership Styles

Difficulty Level: Medium

17. Effective groups and their leaders are always independent.

Learning Objective: 8.4: List the styles of group leadership.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Leadership Styles

Difficulty Level: Medium

Short Answer

1. How are groups differentiated?

Learning Objective: 8.1: Determine what makes a collection of people into “a group.”

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: What Is a Group?

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. What factor, though important, is missing from Aubrey Fisher’s model regarding groups?

Learning Objective: 8.3: Identify how groups form and make decisions.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Group Development and Decision Making

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. What determines the success of a group?

Learning Objective: 8.2: List the key characteristics of a group.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Characteristics of Groups

Difficulty Level: Easy

4. Why do people prefer their leaders to be visionaries?

Learning Objective: 8.6: Raise good questions about “leadership vision” and “leadership ethics.”

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Leadership

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. ______ roles are those functioning in opposition to group productivity and cohesion.

Learning Objective: 8.2: List the key characteristics of a group.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Member Roles

Difficulty Level: Easy

6. Group roles are generally placed within five categories. What are those categories?

Learning Objective: 8.2: List the key characteristics of a group.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Member Roles

Difficulty Level: Medium

7. ______ roles are specific functions to which members are assigned and that they are expected to perform within that group.

Learning Objective: 8.2: List the key characteristics of a group.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Member Roles

Difficulty Level: Medium

8. With ______ roles, the group members have not been officially assigned to these roles but are recognized as performing them through repeated patterns of interaction.

Learning Objective: 8.2: List the key characteristics of a group.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Member Roles

Difficulty Level: Medium

9. In ______, members place a higher priority on keeping the process running smoothly and agreeably than they do on voicing opinions that contradict the majority opinion.

Learning Objective: 8.2: List the key characteristics of a group.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Characteristics of Groups

Difficulty Level: Medium

Essay

1. When does a group come into being?

Learning Objective: 8.1: Determine what makes a collection of people into “a group.”

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: What Is a Group?

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. Provide a definition of a group consistent with the definition given in Duck and McMahan.

Learning Objective: 8.1: Determine what makes a collection of people into “a group.”

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: What Is a Group?

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. Explain the similarity and difference between formal and advisory groups.

Learning Objective: 8.1: Determine what makes a collection of people into “a group.”

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: What Is a Group?

Difficulty Level: Hard

4. Identify the five phases of group development named by psychologist Bruce Tuckman and note which comes first in group formation.

Learning Objective: 8.3: Identify how groups form and make decisions.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Group Development and Decision Making

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. Explain the concept of group cohesiveness.

Learning Objective: 8.2: List the key characteristics of a group.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Characteristics of Groups

Difficulty Level: Hard

6. Explain how language may be used within a group culture.

Learning Objective: 8.2: List the key characteristics of a group.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Characteristics of Groups

Difficulty Level: Hard

7. Explain how groups have relationships inside and outside of their meetings.

Learning Objective: 8.3: Identify how groups form and make decisions.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Group Decision Making Is About Relationships

Difficulty Level: Hard

8. Explain how leadership style differs across all possible domains.

Learning Objective: 8.4: List the styles of group leadership.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Leadership

Difficulty Level: Hard

9. What is the main problem regarding leadership ethics?

Learning Objective: 8.6: Raise good questions about “leadership vision” and “leadership ethics.”

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Leadership

Difficulty Level: Hard

10. When can the transaction of leadership be confirmed?

Learning Objective:: 8.7: Recognize how leadership is transacted.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Leadership

Difficulty Level: Hard

11. Explain group sanctions and why groups might sanction members.

Learning Objective: 8.2: List the key characteristics of a group.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Characteristics of Groups

Difficulty Level: Medium

12. What are group norms and how are they established?

Learning Objective: 8.2: List the key characteristics of a group.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Characteristics of Groups

Difficulty Level: Medium

13. Describe why communicating culturally within a group accomplishes some important things.

Learning Objective: 8.2: List the key characteristics of a group.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Group Culture

Difficulty Level: Hard

14. Discuss the difference between disruptive communication and counteractive communication.

Learning Objective: 8.2: List the key characteristics of a group.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Group Culture

Difficulty Level: Medium

15. Explain promotive communication.

Learning Objective: 8.2: List the key characteristics of a group.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Group Culture

Difficulty Level: Medium

16. Explain the difference between task leaders and socioemotional leaders.

Learning Objective: 8.4: List the styles of group leadership.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Leadership Styles

Difficulty Level: Medium

17. How is leadership transacted?

Learning Objective: 8.7: Recognize how leadership is transacted.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Leadership

Difficulty Level: Hard

18. Explain what happens when a group member is shunned.

Learning Objective: 8.2: List the key characteristics of a group.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Characteristics of Groups

Difficulty Level: Medium

19. Explain the function and importance of social roles.

Learning Objective: 8.2: List the key characteristics of a group.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Characteristics of Groups

Difficulty Level: Medium

20. What is groupthink?

Learning Objective: 8.2: List the key characteristics of a group.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Characteristics of Groups

Difficulty Level: Medium

21. What are disruptive roles?

Learning Objective: 8.2: List the key characteristics of a group.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Characteristics of Groups

Difficulty Level: Medium

22. Explain the concept of coercive power and provide an example.

Learning Objective: 8.5: Differentiate types of leadership power.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Leadership Power

Difficulty Level: Medium

23. Explain the concept of referent power and provide an example.

Learning Objective: 8.5: Differentiate types of leadership power.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Leadership Power

Difficulty Level: Medium

24. Can a single group member possess multiple types of power at once? Explain and provide an example.

Learning Objective: 8.5: Differentiate types of leadership power.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Leadership Power

Difficulty Level: Medium