SMALL GROUP FINAL EXAM
“TWELVE ANGRY MEN”
(Cooperative)
NAMES:
I. Choose the correct answer or answers for each question. There may be more than one
correct answer for each question. Each question is worth 4 points.
A. Juror #10 (the bigoted man with a cold/flu) played the following informal roles
1. devil’s advocate
2. stagehog
3. fighter-controller
4. zealot
B. The following jurors used the hard bargaining (competitive) negotiation style during
most of the deliberations:
1. Juror #4 (the broker with an accent)
2. Juror #1 (the coach/foreman)
3. Juror #8 (the architect/lone holdout in beginning)
4. Juror #10 (the bigot/man with a cold/flu)
C. Juror #3 who yelled a lot (final holdout) exhibited which of the following defensive
communication patterns?
1. provisionalism
2. evaluation
3. certainty
4. control
D. Of the key ways to promote cooperation in groups, which of the following were
chiefly responsible for producing a final unanimous decision?
1. Supportive communication climate
2. Meaningful participation
3. Interdependence
4. Individual accountability
E. Which of the following were primary leadership styles used by juror #8 (the
architect)?
1. Autocratic/directive
2. Laissez faire
3. Democratic/participative
4. Delegating
F. Which of the following were used by other jurors to gain compliance from the juror
#3 (final holdout juror/man who yells)?
1. reason
2. seduction
3. ostracism
4. coercion
G. Juror #1 (the foreman/coach) had which of the following primary power resources?
1. legitimate authority
2. expertise
3. scarce information
4. rewards
H. Which of the following were forms of power exhibited during jury deliberations?
1. prevention
2. empowerment
3. dominance
4. provisionalism
I. Juror #7 (baseball fan) showed communication incompetence because
1. he made frequent inappropriate jokes
2. he was Me-oriented
3. he showed disrespect to some jurors
4. he exhibited little commitment to the group or the deliberative process
J. Which of the following were primary informal roles exhibited by the architect (#8)?
1. Devil’s advocate
2. Fighter-controller
3. Stagehog
4. Zealot
K. Juror #11 (watchmaker from Europe) exhibited which of the following informal roles
during the deliberations?
1. Clarifier-elaborator
2. Fighter-controller
3. Information giver
4. Isolate
L. Juror #3 (yells a lot/final holdout) demonstrates incompetent communication because
1. he shows disrespect toward fellow jurors
2. he is hypercompetitive
3. he says many inappropriate things to fellow jurors
4. he is Me-oriented
M. The jury has a difficult time reaching a consensus. Which of the following contribute
to the difficulty in reaching a consensus?
1. Some jurors stubbornly argue for their own position without listening openly to
all the arguments
2. Most jurors were not suspicious of initial agreement
3. The advertising man (#12) seemed to switch votes to sidestep conflict
4. Some jurors saw the deliberations as a win-lose contest
N. Juror #4 (the broker with an accent) was primarily
1. aggressive
2. passive
3. assertive
4. passive aggressive
O. Juror #8 (the architect) used which of the following communication styles of conflict
management?
1. Avoiding
2. Accommodating
3. Collaborating
4. Competing
P. Juror #7 (the baseball fan) exhibited which of the following disruptive roles?
1. Clown
2. Stagehog
3. Isolate
4. Fighter-controller
Q. Juror #12 (the Advertising man) exhibited which of the following communication
styles of conflict management?
1. Competing (power-forcing)
2. Avoiding
3. Accommodating
4. Confronting
R. Which of the following jurors expressed destructive anger?
1. Juror #8 (architect)
2. Juror #3 (man yells a lot)
3. Juror #4 (stock broker with accent)
4. Juror #6 (painter)
II. Identify each statement as TRUE or FALSE. For every FALSE answer provide a reason
why it is false. Each question is worth 4 points.
A. The jury arrived at a true consensus.
B. The jury performs an error correction function during deliberations when faulty
inferences are made.
accused) not the people (personalities of fellow jurors). He thus demonstrated a key
element of principled negotiation.
management.
F. The final jury decision was an example of group synergy.
G. Most of the jurors concluded that the woman across the El-tracks could not have seen
the boy kill his father because she had marks on her nose that indicated she wore
glasses and she wouldn’t have worn glasses to bed. This is an example of
confirmation bias.
H. When the architect (juror #8) demonstrated that the old man who was an eye witness
couldn’t have risen from his bed and walked down a hallway in 15 seconds, he was
identifying a faulty inference.
I. When two jurors began playing tic-tac-toe, the architect became angry and tore up
the paper. He was upset because these jurors weren’t taking the deliberations
seriously, but also he became defensive because he was being treated with
indifference by the other two jurors.
J. Juror #2 who was a bank clerk (cough drop guy) was never a leader in the group
because he was too quiet and seemed to lack sufficient verbal skills.
K. The jury was guilty of groupthink.
M. When the old man (juror #9) votes “not guilty” during the secret ballot, making the
vote 10-2 in favor of guilty, he is playing one of the disruptive informal roles.
N. The disagreements among jurors, although heated at times, never drifted into
destructive conflict.
should be declared, he is exhibiting an avoiding conflict management strategy.
for other jurors at some time during the deliberations.
based on research on leader emergence, make them prime candidates for a leadership
position on the jury.
GROUP DISCUSSION EXAM #4
TWELVE ANGRY MEN
(Individual)
NAME: __________________________
I. Choose the correct answer or answers for each question. There may be more than one
correct answer for each question. Each question is worth 4 points.
A. Juror #10 (the bigot with cold/flu) exhibited which of the following defensive
communication patterns?
1. Control
2. Certainty
3. Superiority
4. Evaluation
B. Juror #9 (the old man) exhibited which of the following informal roles during the
deliberations?
1. Isolate
2. Clarifier-elaborator
3. Information giver
4. Cynic
C. Eleven members of the jury accepted eye witness testimony from the old man and
the woman across the El-tracks even after initial discussion. This is an example of
1. collective inferential error
2. negative reciprocation
3. negative synergy
4. correlation as causation
D. Juror #5 (lived in a slum) had which of the following power resources during the
deliberations?
1. Expertise
2. Scarce information
3. Charisma
4. Legitimate authority
E. Which of the following strategies were used to gain compliance and extinguish the
deviance (defiance) of the lone juror voting “not guilty” (#8, the architect) during
initial deliberations?
1. Coercion
2. Seduction
3. Ostracism
4. Reason
II. Identify each statement as TRUE or FALSE. For every FALSE answer provide a reason
why it is false. Each question is worth 4 points.
A. Because juror #3 (man who yells) was highly vocal and almost never quiet, you
would expect from the leader emergence research that he would emerge as informal
group leader.
B. Juror #8 (the architect) principally used the directive style of leadership.
C. The jury did not use the criteria step of the Standard Agenda decision-making
format.
D. One of the key informal role’s played by juror #7 (the baseball fan) was devil’s
advocate.
E. The bigot (#10), the man who yelled a lot (#3), and the baseball fan (#7) had one
thing in common: they all relied primarily on the competing, power/forcing style of
conflict management.
ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS
Multiple Choice
A. Which of the following jurors used the shift response repeatedly?
B. The jury at the beginning of deliberations started following the norm that each
juror would explain his vote in the order of jury numbers (#2, then #3, etc.).
This is an example of
C. Which of the following jurors were guilty of the ambushing tactic?
1. Juror #2 (bank teller)
D. The jury did not handle its very difficult members (#3 and #10) particularly well.
What the other jurors should have done but didn’t do for the most part was
True-False
C. When juror #10, then later #3 advocated that the jury declare itself a hung jury, this