Question

____ occurs when a homogenous and highly cohesive group is focuses on maintaining unanimity, thus failing to evaluate alternatives fairly and suppressing contrary opinions both from within the group and from outside the group.

Select one:

a. Confirmation Bias

b. Group Polarization

c. Social Loafing

d. Groupthink

____ is the tendency of a group to make more extreme decisions than they would make if the individual group members were acting individually.

Select one:

a. Collective Group Norms

b. Group Polarization

c. Groupthink

d. Intergroup Processes

_____ is contributing less effort while in a group than one would if working individually.

Select one:

a. Social Loafing

b. Production Blocking

c. Collective Group Norms

d. Intergroup Processes

The____ is the belief that deindividuating settings do not lead to anonymity or a loss of personal identity, rather, they help foster a more social or collective identity.

Select one:

a. Social Identity Model of Disinhibition Effects

b. Theory of Reasoned Action

c. Theory of Planned Behavior

d. Three-component Model

Answer 1

Groupthink refers to the outcome of a decision being irrational and dysfunctional in a group. Groupthink refers to conforming to the majority or to the leader of the group. The members of the group are not even given an opportunity to voice their difference in opinions. The members of the group cannot give suggestions and are not allowed to voice if they think that the decision made by the leader is irrational. They have to conform. It involves unity in a group instead of evaluating the situations, it's options and alternatives. Groupthink involves thinking with one mind instead of with the number of individuals in a group. It does not give the liberty to the team members to think out of the box. Groupthink occurs when a homogenous and highly cohesive group focuses on maintaining unanimity, thus failing to evaluate alternatives fairly and suppressing contrary opinions both from within the group and from outside the group.

Thus, the correct answer is option, D.