What Kind of Demographic Voting Blocs Would You Expect to Emerge

question 31

Essay

What kind of demographic voting blocs would you expect to emerge in elections about delayed eligibility for Social Security retirement benefits and in elections to increase taxes to fund cost-of-living increases for Social Security recipients? Why?

Recognize the types of tasks defined in Steiner’s taxonomy and their impact on group interaction and performance.

Identify the role of group norms, membership, and socialization processes in shaping group behavior.

Understand the psychological and social mechanisms underlying group cohesiveness and its importance.

Apply knowledge of group dynamics to propose solutions for minimizing social loafing and enhancing group productivity.

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Definitions:

Schema-Irrelevant

Information or stimuli that do not fit into an existing cognitive schema or framework, often requiring new schema to be developed or old ones to be modified.

Situational Attribution

A decision by an observer to attribute a behavior to environmental forces facing the person who performed it rather than to that person’s internal state. See also Dispositional attribution.

Dispositional Attribution

A decision by an observer to attribute a behavior to the internal state(s) of the person who performed it rather than to factors in that person’s environment.

Internal Locus

An individual's belief that they can control their life events and outcomes, as opposed to external forces having that control.