Up to This Point, Everyone Was Agreeing with Whatever the Team

question 9

Multiple Choice

 Up to this point, everyone was agreeing with whatever the team leader suggested. Fearing the team was suffering from ______, Mr. Chase purposely brought up divergent perspectives and approaches and asked team members to share their thoughts on them. 

• A) groupthink
• B) affective conflict
• C) de-escalation
• D) cognitive conflict

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Definitions:

Probability

The assessment of the probability of an event happening.

Poisson Model

A statistical model used to predict the count of events that happen independently and with a known constant mean rate.

Exponential Distribution

A probability distribution used to model time until an event occurs, assuming events happen independently at a constant average rate.

Probability

The measure of the likelihood that an event will occur, represented as a number between 0 and 1.