Psychology 2070A/B Lecture Notes - Group Dynamics, How Can It Be (Album), Social Loafing

3. Research participants are randomly assigned to different groups in an experiment in order to a increase chances that participants are representative of people in general b. minimize chances that participants in any group know each other. o minimize any differences between groups of participants. d increase chances that the different groups have the same number of participants.

Imagine a group of like-minded people getting together to write an important document for the foundation of a new country. What should this group of like-minded people do to decrease the likelihood of falling prey to groupthink?

Invite people with differing perspectives (or backgrounds – e.g. women and non-White people!) to sit down in the “room where it happens” and help make edits to the document

Designate group members to play the role of “critical evaluator” and pose counterarguments

Organize the group into smaller sub-groups responsible for making decisions.

All of the above. 

28. A father believes that certain behaviours are more appropriate for boys than for girls. His wife has heard him share these beliefs and she wonders whether they are partly responsible for the fact that he relates differently to his son, with whom he tends to use more verbal and physical prohibition than he does with his daughter. In this example, the father's beliefs would be examples of , while the fact that he treats his children differently depending on their gender demonstrates the concept of A) gender identities, gender constancies B) sex-role stereotypes; gender preferences C) sex-role stereotypes; sex typing D) gender identities; sex typing E) gender identities; gender behaviour