Part 1: Using credible sources (like a textbook) and your personal experiences, please complete the following items. Support at least one item with evidence from a scholarly source.

1.1- Why do psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, and political scientists study groups?

1.2- What is group cohesion, and how does it differ from interpersonal attraction?

1.3- What is the secret to surviving, as a group, in an extreme and unusual environment?

1.4- Summarize Tuckman's five-stage model of group development, naming and giving an example of each stage he identifies.

1.5- How is a role in a group like a role in a play? How do they differ?

1.6- Describe the structure of the status relations in a group of characters in a popular television program.

1.7- What are the processes that distinguish between a typical team and a highly effective team?

Part 2 Using credible sources (like a textbook) and your personal experiences, please complete the following items. Support at least one item with evidence from a scholarly source.

2.1- In what ways does membership in a group change a person's sense of self?

2.2- How is the need to belong different from other needs such as thirst and hunger?

2.3- Use principles of attraction to explain why people use social networking sites.

2.4- You are planning a mission to explore the planet Mars. When you create the team that you will send, what types of individuals and diversity will you build into the group and why?

2.5- Why is a unanimous majority so influential?

2.6- Explain why some individuals rise to positions of authority and others do not.

Part 3 Using a scholarly article, at least one credible source (like a textbook), and your personal experiences, please complete the following items.

3.1- Think of groups that you have joined in the past. How have those experiences with past groups affected your willingness to join groups now?

3.2- Do you think of yourself as a loner or a joiner? Trace your behavioral tendencies back to your psychological needs.

3.3- Describe your own role tendencies in groups in terms of preference for task roles or relationship roles.

3.4- Drawing on studies of cultural factors, eras, gender, and personality, explain your personal tendency to conform or to remain independent.

3.5- If you were the manager of a large staff of people in a manufacturing company, which bases of power would you rely on most heavily and why?

Make sure to List all references used, use in text citations in APA style.