CHAPTER 5
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Someone in your study group plays the harmonizer-tension reliever role. This means that she
2. The devil’s advocate group role is
3. Which of the following is a difference between a role and a norm?
4. The Stanford Prison study showed
5. Your athletic team requires all new members to engage in an initiation or hazing ritual which
includes eating live crickets, rolling in mud and walking across campus for all to see, and
singing the theme from yesteryear’s TV show “Gilligan’s Island” loudly in front of the entire
team. These hazing rituals will likely demonstrate a
6. Informal roles are typically classified into three types:
7. Hazing is
8. The communication process in which new and established group members adjust to one another is
9. A member of your group constantly seeks recognition and attention by monopolizing discussion and
preventing others from participating in the discussion. This member is playing which of the
following roles?
10. Playing the role of clown is a
11. As a group member, you keep on track the group’s discussion on an important topic, guiding the
discussion and keeping the verbal contributions from drifting into irrelevant side issues. You are
playing which role?
12. You are attending a departmental party for faculty and student majors. One faculty member, as he
does at every departmental party, spends his time delivering what sounds like a lecture to students in
a classroom, boring everyone with his vast knowledge of theories and research. This is an illustration
by this faculty member of
13. When an individual member settles into his or her primary role in a group, this is called
14. The process of newcomers gaining acceptance into an existing group is influenced by which of the
following?
15. A group member who plays the role of a cynic exhibits which of the following behaviors?
16. Which of the following is a disruptive role in a group:
17. “The capacity to recognize the current requirements of the group and then enact the role-specific
behaviors most appropriate in the given context” is the definition for
18. The central communicative function of task roles is to
19. The central communicative function of maintenance roles is to
20. Role emergence involves
21. You have just joined a group. As a newcomer, you can enhance your chances of gaining acceptance
from your new group members by
22. Which of the following is a strategy that established members of a group can employ to make the
role of newcomer less challenging and intimidating?
23. Role emergence in informal groups with zero history typically occurs from
24. A member of your small group gently challenges a prevailing point of view “for the sake of
argument” to test and critically evaluate the strength of the group’s ideas and potential decisions.
This member is playing the role of
TRUE-FALSE
2. Maintenance roles in groups are often viewed as lower status in a competitive
3. Role fixation occurs when a group member spends a lot of time thinking
4. Role conflict is defined as two group members engaged in argument over playing
6. The central communicative function of maintenance roles is to gain and maintain the
7. The role that has the greatest importance and most potent effect on us is usually the one we
8. Group socialization refers to the communication process in which new and established group
12. Newcomers to groups are more likely to be readily accepted by other group members if the group
15. Playing the role of newcomer to a group means trying to make a splash, to impress members of the
20. Maintenance roles are formal roles whose purpose is to gain and maintain the cohesiveness of the
21. Despite their critical importance to group success, maintenance roles are often viewed as having
22. Groups are more accepting of a newcomer when members believe the newcomers accepts and will
23. Accepting a newcomer into an established, successful group often poses a risk of disrupting a
24. Role reversal occurs when a group member attempts to change from playing one task role to a