PSYC 3310 Chapter 6: Chapter 6.docx

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3310
• Professor: Kieran O' Doherty

Document Summary

Although it is a vague concept it appears as an all encompassing component of team functioning: chemistry is implicitly understood to be the sum of intangible attributes of a team, including everything from respect between teammates, compatibility between players and coaches, and lack of conflict within the team, at least part of the reason why teams are successful or unsuccessful lies with the notion of chemistry, player and coach satisfaction, motivation and a variety of other factors are also important consequences. Team dynamics: scientist studying social behaviour have to choose between using groups that exist naturally in the real world and artificially creating groups that possess certain desirable characteristics, so a team could be composed of 5 undergraduate students who are asked to solve a puzzle to a natural team such as doctors and nurses who actually preform open heart surgery, according to forsyth (1999), groups are best characterized by certain features.