Kinesiology 1088A/B Lecture Notes - Group Dynamics, Team Unity, Interpersonal Attraction
4 Sep 2014
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A term used to depict the vitality and changing nature of groups and to identify the field of study that focuses on the behaviour of groups. Next to a family, a sports team may be the most influential group to which an individual belongs. It has an extremely strong socializing impact. A sports team offers an ideal setting for research on group dynamics because: It can hold constant many confounding variables (size, rules of conduct, etc. ) It provides an ideal context for studying cooperation, competition, & conflict. Through it"s multitude of statistics, it offers many objective measures of group effectiveness. A collection of two or more individuals. Structured patterns of interaction and modes of communication (each team has unique form of. Common perceptions about groups structure (everyone knows their role and what they do as part of the structure) Four stage developmental sequence that group moves through to become a team.
