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1
Research findings in social psychology on tug-of-war teams most clearly challenges the common notion that
A)there is unity in strength.
B)too many cooks spoil the broth.
C)to win one should divide and conquer.
D)familiarity breeds contempt.
2
People who benefit from the group but give little in return are referred to in social psychology as
A)loafing groupies.
B)social misfits.
C)slacking collectives.
D)free riders.
3
Social facilitation and social loafing have been explained in terms of a difference in
A)evaluation concern.
B)informational influence.
C)cognitive dissonance.
D)group polarization.
4
The performance of additive tasks is likely to lead to
A)social facilitation.
B)social comparison.
C)social loafing.
D)the risky shift.
5
Poor coordination of individual efforts has been offered as an explanation for
A)deindividuation.
B)social loafing.
C)social facilitation.
D)group polarization.
6
Which of the following is false?
A)groups of friends loaf less than groups of strangers.
B)Israel's communal kibbutz farms have outproduced Israel's noncollective farms.
C)research completed in Japan, Thailand, and India indicates that social loafing does not occur in less individualistic, more group-centered cultures.
D)students pumped exercise bikes more energetically when they knew they were being individually monitored than when they thought their output was being pooled with that of other riders.
7
Experiments show that people in groups loaf less when
A)the task is routine.
B)they are in an unfamiliar setting.
C)they have a strong sense of external control.
D)the task is challenging.
8
Social loafing would be least likely to occur
A)in a boys' club trying to raise money by holding a Saturday car wash.
B)in a relay race where each team member's performance is timed.
C)in a community garden where each family is expected to contribute whatever free time they have.
D)in a work crew building a new highway.
9
Ms. Jones is a teacher who wants her students all to work hard on their group projects. She should
A)give everyone in each group the same grade, based on the final work submitted by the group.
B)assign projects that allow her to evaluate individual member's contributions.
C)have members switch groups partway through the project.
D)do all of these.
10
People who listen to the local public radio station, but do not contribute money to the radio station are
A)committing the fundamental contribution error.
B)suffering evaluation apprehension.
C)media literate.
D)free riders.
11
Increasing evaluation apprehension leads to
A)increased contribution of individuals to the group.
B)decreased social loafing.
C)more social facilitation.
D)all of these.
12
Which of the following groups is MOST likely to have social loafing?
A)the uniformed janitors who clean the stadium during basketball games
B)a team of new graduate students working on a challenging research problem with colleagues they'll be with for the next five years
C)a jazz quartet where each member has a solo in every song
D)a relay race where each team member's performance is timed





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