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/. Social influence - Answer-✅Emerges in a group that manifests itself by altering
actions, attitudes, and feelings.
/.Primary affiliation groups - Answer-✅Those with which people most identify, such as
family or appears - exert greater pressure on individuals
/.Secondary affiliation groups - Answer-✅Those with which people least identify, such
as a city or a confederation.
/.Group dynamics - Answer-✅The influence of groups on members
/.The Hawthorne effect - Answer-✅Changes in behavior as a result of observation and
manipulation of conditions in environment
/.Group dynamics - Answer-✅Includes everything that goes on in a small group.
Includes the groups purpose, communication patterns, power, control issues, and
member rolls.
/.Group content - Answer-✅Information within and purpose of the group
/.Group process - Answer-✅Interactions and relationships among members within the
group
/.Group content - Answer-✅Involves the actual words, ideas, and information
exchanged within a group as well as the purpose of the group.
/.Group process - Answer-✅The interaction of group members with one another, often
in some meaningful way
/.A relational paradox - Answer-✅Individuals want to become connected with others.
Out of a sense of fear or hurt, however, they simultaneously employ strategies that
restrict or limit their ability to become close to others. They disconnect. They may
reconnect when trust is built in enhance their connection when they feel safer
, /.Seven types of group processes - Answer-✅Contagion, conflict, anxiety, consensual
validation, universality, Family reenactment, installation of hope.
/.Contagion - Answer-✅Member behavior elicits group interaction
/.Conflict - Answer-✅Usually revolves around significant issues in peoples lives, such
as authority, intimacy, growth, change, autonomy, power, and loss.
/.Anxiety - Answer-✅Universal tension and uneasy feelings. Two strategies to deal with
anxiety are restrictive solutions and enabling solutions.
/.Restrictive solutions - Answer-✅Changing the subject, attacking a group member,
intellectualizing, detaching from the group, or ignoring a group member.
/.Enabling solutions - Answer-✅Revolve around open listening and discussion about
the anxiety that is present
/.Consensual validation - Answer-✅Involves checking one's behavior with a group of
others. In this interaction, people are questioned, confronted, or affirmed either
individually or within the group.
/.Universality - Answer-✅It is comforting to know that others within a group of similar
experiences and feelings. Enables group participants to identify and unify with one
another.
/.Family reenactment - Answer-✅Because groups resemble families in many ways, it is
natural that some behaviors by group members are connected to issues they never
resolved in childhood
/.Installation of hope - Answer-✅Vital that these group members be helped to come to
terms with their own issues. Through such a process, all group members can come to
realize that their issues are resolvable
/.Two sets of questions to guide the interplay between content and process - Answer-
✅Content questions and process questions
/.Content questions - Answer-✅What do we have to do? What do we need to do to
accomplish our goals?
/.Process questions - Answer-✅Who am I? (Intra-personal)
Who am I with you? (Inter personal)
Who are we together? (The whole group)