The Factor Most Likely to Determine Whether Groupthink Becomes a Problem

question 214

Multiple Choice

The factor most likely to determine whether groupthink becomes a problem for a group is group __________.

• A) size
• B) status
• C) intellect
• D) cohesiveness

Comprehend how mood influences information processing and social cognition.

Explore the interaction between motivation, emotion, and social cognition in shaping perceptions and actions.

Understand the motivational underpinnings of cognitive processes including the desire for accuracy, certainty, and maintaining valued beliefs.

Grasp the implications of metaphors in facilitating understanding of abstract concepts through concrete experiences.

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Definitions:

Conditioned Stimulus

A previously neutral stimulus that, after becoming associated with an unconditioned stimulus, eventually triggers a conditioned response.

Unconditioned Stimulus

In classical conditioning, a stimulus that instinctively and automatically induces a response without previously being learned.

Extinction

In psychology, the gradual disappearance of a conditioned response when the reinforcement is withheld; in biology, the end of an organism or of a group of organisms.

Stimulus Generalization

A psychological phenomenon where a response is elicited by stimuli similar, but not identical, to the original stimulus used in conditioning.