COM 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Groupthink, Cultural Relativism
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14. 1 advantages to working in groups would be sharing the workload and pooling resources, bouncing ideas off one another, and the enjoyment and motivation of working with others. Synergy is when the whole group is more successful than each member within it. Groupthink is when members in the group are more concerned with getting the task done as opposed to getting it done right. Interdependent is when one thing a member in the group does something that then influences the entire group. 14. 2 group norms are the expectations of behavior for how each member participates in the group. They are not directly stated but indirectly observed. Roles are positions within the group that each member may take on, they can either be formal or informal.
