Review 2

• 1- Forming - Independence
• 2-Storming - Dependence/ Interdependance
• 3-Norming - Dependence/ Interdependance
• 4-Performing -Return to Independence

• Individual issues- How do I fit in?
• Group Issues- Why are we here?

• Individual issues- what's my role here
• Group issues- why are we here?

• Individual issues- What do the others expect me to do?
• Group Issues- Can we agree on roles and work as a team?

• Individual issues- How can I best perform my role?
• Group Issues- Can we do the job properly?

Interacting groups- Typical groups, in which the members interact with each other face to face.

Nominal Group technique- Individual inputs are pooled.

Brainstormin- An idea-generation process that specifically encourages any and all alternatives, while withholding any criticism of those alternatives.

Socail Loafing- Decrease in individual effort as group size increases.

A loss in productivity due to resources bieng allocated to procedural as oppossed to task issues.

Blocking- When one person is talking it inhibits the ability of the others to simultaneously generate new ideas.

Additive tasks- Value equal group performance

Conjunctive tasks- everybody takes a peice and it goes down a pipeline.

Disjunctive Tasks- Someone is awesome at a given task so the best thing the remainder of the group cna do is make sure the person is happy.

Cooperative decision-making groups may resolve disagreement among their members in formulating collective responses using any of five general methods of resolving disagreement (Laughlin & Hollingshead, 1995):

• 1.Demonstration:
• truth-wins and truth-supported-wins models.

• 2.Voting:
• majority and plurality models.

• 3.Turn taking:
• proportionality model.

• 4.Random selection:
• equiprobability model.

• 5.Generation of an emergent alternative:
• the adoption of an alternative not proposed by any member.

The distortion of individual judgement by a unanimous but incorrect opposition.

Group- two or more freely interacting individuals, collective norms, collective goals, common identity.

Team: Small group with complimentary skills who hold themselves mutually accountable for common purpose, goals, and approach.

Phycological processes that arouse and direct goal-directed behavior.