What Is the Difference Between Formal and Informal Groups

question 56

Multiple Choice

What is the difference between formal and informal groups?

• A) Informal teams get together socially; formal teams do not.
• B) The purpose of a formal group is for friends to get together at a regularly schedule time.
• C) An informal group is assigned by an organization or its managers to accomplish a specific purpose.
• D) An informal group is a committee whose members share a common goal.
• E) A formal group is assigned by an organization or its managers to accomplish specific goals.

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Definitions:

Disgust

An emotional response of revulsion towards something considered offensive, distasteful, or unpleasant.

Superego

In Freudian psychoanalysis, a component of the psyche that operates as the ethical component of personality, providing moral standards and aspirations.

Collective Unconscious

A concept proposed by Carl Jung, referring to the part of the unconscious mind that is derived from ancestral memory and experience and is common to all humankind.

Ego

The part of the psyche that mediates between the conscious, the unconscious, and the external world, according to Freudian psychology.