24.9: Chapter Exercises
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Chapter Exercises
- You are teaching a class and want to assign group projects. Answer each of the following questions in detail and give examples.
- What sort of feedback would you give the groups?
- What steps would you take to make sure they knew how well they were doing in comparison to the other groups in the class?
- What steps would you take to make sure groups were rewarded for their efforts?
- How could you give rewards in a way that didn’t unduly penalize those who did more work or unduly reward those who did less?
- More importantly, how would you encourage everyone to do their fair share in the first place?
- Suppose that you learn that some important policy decision was made by a large group. How might that affect the way you think about it?
- What do you think explains the risky shift? What role, for example, might diffusion of responsibility play here?
- Give an example from your own experience of the risky shift (also called the choice shift) and explain the factors that you think brought it about. What problems might a risky shift cause and how might we try to minimize its dangers?
- Give an example from your own experience of group polarization and explain the factors that you think brought it about. What problems might a group polarization cause and how might we try to minimize its dangers?
- Give an example, either from your own experience or from your reading, of “groupthink,” and explain the factors that you think brought it about. How might we try to minimize the tendency for people to engage in groupthink?
- Note some concrete ways in which we might try to reduce the various dangers inherent in group thinking. How practical are they