Psychology 345 Chapter 9

Front 1

Social Loafing

Back 1

If a task is easy people tend to work less hard in a group.

Front 2

Deindividuation

Back 2

Getting lost in the crowd,which can lead to crazier behavior.

Front 3

Social Facilitation

Back 3

People's performance on easy tasks increases, but decreases with hard tasks when in the presences of others.

Front 4

Process Loss

Back 4

Any aspect of group interaction that inhibits good problem solving.

Front 5

Transactive Memory

Back 5

The combined memory of a group that is more efficient than the memory of the individual members.

Front 6

Groupthink

Back 6

A kind of decision process in which maintaining group cohesiveness and solidarity is more important than considering the facts in a realistic manner.

Front 7

Group Polarization

Back 7

The tendency for groups to make decisions that are more extreme than the initial inclinations of their members.

Front 8

Great Person Theory

Back 8

The idea that certain traits make a person a good leader, regardless of the situation.

Front 9

Transactional Leaders

Back 9

Leaders who set clear, short-term goals and reward people who meet them.

Front 10

Transformational Leaders

Back 10

Leaders who inspire followers to focus on common, long-term goals.

Front 11

Contingency Theory of Leadership

Back 11

The idea that the effectiveness of a leader depends both on how task oriented or relationship oriented the leader is and on the amount of control the leader has over the group.

Front 12

Task-Oriented Leaders

Back 12

Leaders who are concerned more with getting the job done than with workers' feelings and relationships.

Front 13

Relationship Oriented Leaders

Back 13

Leaders who are concerned more with workers' feelings and relationships.

Front 14

Integrative Solution

Back 14

A solution to a conflict whereby the parties make trade-offs on issues, with each side conceding the most on an issues that are unimportant to the other side.