You Wish to Understand a Group's Composition

question 19

Multiple Choice

You wish to understand a group's composition.You should therefore study the

• A)relationships linking members to each other.
• B)group's degree of cohesiveness.
• C)goals the group is seeking.
• D)extent to which the group is perceived to be a real group.
• E)qualities of the members of the group.

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Definitions:

Arousal Theory

A theory in psychology that suggests there is an optimal level of arousal for each individual that leads to the best performance on tasks; too little or too much arousal can decrease performance.

Equipotentiality Theory

The concept that various parts of the brain can take over the functions of other parts if those parts are damaged.

Effortful Processing

A type of information processing that requires a significant amount of attention and conscious effort in order to encode information into memory.

Automatic Processing

The unconscious encoding of incidental information such as space, time, and frequency, and of well-learned information.