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19 Cards in this Set
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how can you cope with information overload?
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specializing, limiting the searching, becoming selective, screening info
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confirmation bias
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the tendency to seek information that confirms our predispositions and to ignore or distort info that contradicts our currently held beliefs
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false dichotomy
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it ie either right or it is wrong, there is no in between
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inference
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a conclusion about the unknown based upon the known is this
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what is a general source of inferrential error?
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faulty info base, limited info base
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how can a competent communicator combat confirmation bias?
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playing devil's advocate, gathering allies to challenge the bias, vigorously presenting disconfirming evidence, seeking disconfirming infor and evidence
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correlation
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the relationship between two or more variables
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meaningfulness
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a group/team's perception that its tasks are important
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information overload
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when the rate of information flow into a system exceeds the system's processing capactiy
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how can a group put their critical thinking abilities into practice to promote higher quality decision making?
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caredully examine the validity of inferences
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what should group members consider when developing goals for your group?
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set clear goals, cooperative goals, challenging goals, commitment to goals
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how does a group develop team identity?
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uniforms, team talk
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what is group think?
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mode of thinking that people engage in when they are in a really cohesive group, strive for unanimity which overrides their motivation to alternative ideas, it isnt desirable
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how can you avoid group think?
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recognize group think as a problem, minimize status difference, seeking information that challenges
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t/f information overload is a pervasive problem in virtually all decision making/ problem solving groups
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true
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t/f faulty info processing by a group will likely lead to low quality decision making
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true
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t/f a strong correlation means that you have actually found causation
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false
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t/f group think means that the whole group has finally agreed to the solution to the problem
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false
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t/f the primary situational variable that the leader must consider when adapting leadership styles to the specific group is the readiness of the followers
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true
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