You Called a Group Decision-Making Meeting with Your Team Today

question 55

Multiple Choice

You called a group decision-making meeting with your team today to get their help in deciding how best to compete with two new competitors that recently opened nearby.The meeting has run over two hours already, and you're starting to get worried about all the work that's being left undone in the meantime.You've also noticed that one of your managers, Uri, keeps pushing for solutions that would probably benefit him more than it would help your store.Uri's behavior is an example of __________.

• A)social loafing
• B)conformity
• C)groupthink
• D)domination and goal displacement

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Definitions:

Reversal of Treatment

A procedure in single-subject research where an intervention is removed to study its effects on the target behavior or condition.

Single-case Design

A research design that focuses on the response of a single subject to document the effects of a specific condition or intervention.

Reversal Designs

Experimental designs in which an intervention is introduced, removed, and then reintroduced to gauge its effects.

ABAB Design

A type of experimental design in behavioral science that involves alternating between a baseline period (A) and an intervention period (B).