The Concepts of Need for Affiliation and Need for Power

question 68

Multiple Choice

The concepts of need for affiliation and need for power are similar in that both assume that

• A)people join groups to satisfy basic needs.
• B)most people need to control other people.
• C)we are attracted to people who have similar needs.
• D)social-and not personality-factors influence group formation.

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Definitions:

Complete Counterbalancing

An experimental design technique where all possible orders of presenting stimuli are used to control for order effects.

Matched Pairs Design

A method of assigning subjects to groups in which pairs of subjects are first matched on some characteristic and then individually assigned randomly to groups.

Matching Variable

A characteristic used to ensure that members of different groups in a study are similar on that particular attribute.

Dependent Variable

The variable in an experiment that is observed and measured, expected to change as a result of alterations to the independent variable.