In Group Decision-Making, the Tendency for Group Discussion to Be

question 5

Multiple Choice

In group decision-making, the tendency for group discussion to be limited to a single point of view is best described by which psychological principle?

• A)diffusion of responsibility
• B)social loafing
• C)groupthink
• D)legitimization of authority
• E)consensus-building

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Definitions:

Column Variable

A variable represented by a column in a dataset, where each entry in the column represents a value of the variable.

Degrees of Freedom

In statistics, it refers to the number of independent values or quantities which can be assigned to a statistical distribution, less the number of parameters estimated.

Chi-Square

A statistical test used to assess the differences between categorically grouped data by comparing the observed frequencies of groups with expected frequencies derived from a hypothesis.

Row Variable

A variable that constitutes the basis for organizing data in rows in a table or matrix, often used in cross-tabulation.