The Term "Groupthink" Refers to the Observation That

question 53

Multiple Choice

The term "groupthink" refers to the observation that

• A) people who belong to any group tend to develop prejudices against all nonmembers of the group.
• B) a group of people working together generates more ideas than the same number of people working independently.
• C) people are likely to explain their own behavior in situational terms and other people's behavior in dispositional terms.
• D) groups sometimes make bad decisions because they fail to challenge one another's decisions.

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