CAS 100B Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Energizer, Fidgeting, Agreeableness

• School: PSU
• Department: Communication Arts and Sciences
• Course: CAS 100B
• Professor: buterbaugh

Document Summary

Task roles: initiator, information seeker/giver, opinion seeker/giver, elaborator, coordinator, and energizer. Task dimension vs. social dimension, open vs. closed system. Group development: forming storming norming performing adjourning. Secondary tension: in storming stage, people assigning roles and some want the same ones. Culture: learned set of shared interpretations about beliefs, values and norms, which affect the behavior of a group of people. Co culture: coexist in mainstream yet remain connected through common heritage. Diversity: quality of being different (race, age, gender) Causes of conflict: ethnocentrism, stereotyping (generalizations), prejudice (preconceived opinion), discrimination (very negative thoughts) Personality traits: extraversion vs. introversion, conscientiousness vs. carelessness, emotional stability vs. neuroticism, agreeableness vs. disagreeableness. Cultural dimensions: individualistic vs. collectivist, high power vs. low power, masculine vs. feminine, high context (nonverbal cues) vs. low context (direct), monochronic (1task at a time) vs polychronic. Face: favorable social impression one wants others to have of him or her. Social penetration theory: superficial intimate personal core.