Group Motivation and Performance on Tasks of Varying Cognitive Complexity
Author: Michael C. Moss
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 508
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Group Performance
Author: Bernard A. Nijstad
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2009-06-22
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 1135217785
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPeople interact and perform in group settings in all areas of life. Organizations and businesses are increasingly structuring work around groups and teams. Every day, we work in groups such as families, friendship groups, societies and sports teams, to make decisions and plans, solve problems, perform physical tasks, generate creative ideas, and more. Group Performance outlines the current state of social psychological theories and findings concerning the performance of groups. It explores the basic theories surrounding group interaction and development and investigates how groups affect their members. Bernard A. Nijstad discusses these issues in relation to the many different tasks that groups may perform, including physical tasks, idea generation and brainstorming, decision-making, problem-solving, and making judgments and estimates. Finally, the book closes with an in-depth discussion of teamwork and the context in which groups interact and perform. Offering an integrated approach, with particular emphasis on the interplay between group members, the group task, interaction processes and context, this book provides a state-of-the-art overview of social psychological theory and research. It will be highly valuable to undergraduates, graduates and researchers in social psychology, organizational behavior and business.
Dissertation Abstracts International
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Published: 2005
Total Pages: 768
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKCognitive Complexity and Group Performance
Author: Terence R. Mitchell
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Published: 1970
Total Pages: 23
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA study was conducted to determine if leaders with high cognitive complexity scores had better performance and manifest different behavior than leaders with low complexity scores. The results indicated how the performance of groups with high complexity leaders was significantly better than groups with low complexity leaders and how high complexity leaders seemed to show more variance in their behavior over four task settings. (Modified author abstract).
Second Language Task Complexity
Author: Peter Robinson
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9027207194
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnderstanding how task complexity affects second language learning, interaction and spoken and written performance is essential to informed decisions about task design and sequencing in TBLT programs. The chapters in this volume all examine evidence for claims of the Cognition Hypothesis that complex tasks should promote greater accuracy and complexity of speech and writing, as well as more interaction, and learning of information provided in the input to task performance, than simpler tasks. Implications are drawn concerning the basic pedagogic claim of the Cognition Hypothesis, that tasks should be sequenced for learners from simple to complex during syllabus design. Containing theoretical discussion of the Cognition Hypothesis, and cutting-edge empirical studies of the effects of task complexity on second language learning and performance, this book will be important reading for language teachers, graduate students and researchers in applied linguistics, second language acquisition, and cognitive and educational psychology.
Group Cognitive Complexity
Author: Kyoosang Choi
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 110
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKWork groups (or teams) are widely used in current organizations because modern tasks impose mental demands that are too large for one individual alone to successfully manage. Although the use of work groups has become popular as a solution to the growing complexity of modern tasks, many group activities still contain a variety of cognitive tasks, such as problem solving, judgment, inference, decision making, and so on. Furthermore, these group works entail new forms of cognitive requirements, such as pooling and coordinating individual member inputs. Therefore, an understanding of group cognition is important in understanding better group behaviors. By focusing on the collective cognitive processes of individual group members, this dissertation addresses one of the most pervasive questions in group research: Why do some groups perform better than others? From a group-as-a-whole perspective, this dissertation conceptualizes group-level cognition as emergent qualities reflecting social cognitive interaction among group members. By extending the concept of cognitive complexity that has been studied to describe human cognitive structure at the group level, this dissertation explores how emergent group cognitive complexity forms and operates. By drawing on extant research in the areas of cognitive diversity, information sharing, social influence, and perspective taking, this research proposes a group-level model of cognitive complexity. The proposed model details how social cognitive processes among group members influence the emergence of the two primary dimensions of group cognitive complexity (i.e., group differentiation and group integration). It also considers the role of group cognitive complexity in effective group performance. To test the research hypotheses, the study employed a business simulation game (the B & B Enterprises Management Flight simulator; Sternman, 2003). The participants in this study were undergraduate students enrolled in introductory Organizational Behavior classes at the University at Buffalo. They were randomly assigned to three- or four-person groups which assume the role of a management team for a firm in a simulated market. The total sample size was 106 groups of 376 individuals. The findings of this study suggest that group differentiation and group integration emerge through different social cognitive processes. Specifically, in addition to combined individual cognition, the dominant member's differentiation was positively associated with group differentiation, while information sharing was positively related to group integration. Furthermore, the findings clearly demonstrate the emergent group cognitive complexity construct as a significant predictor of group performance.
Second Language Task Complexity
Author: Peter Robinson
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2011-09-13
Total Pages: 359
ISBN-13: 902729027X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnderstanding how task complexity affects second language learning, interaction and spoken and written performance is essential to informed decisions about task design and sequencing in TBLT programs. The chapters in this volume all examine evidence for claims of the Cognition Hypothesis that complex tasks should promote greater accuracy and complexity of speech and writing, as well as more interaction, and learning of information provided in the input to task performance, than simpler tasks. Implications are drawn concerning the basic pedagogic claim of the Cognition Hypothesis, that tasks should be sequenced for learners from simple to complex during syllabus design. Containing theoretical discussion of the Cognition Hypothesis, and cutting-edge empirical studies of the effects of task complexity on second language learning and performance, this book will be important reading for language teachers, graduate students and researchers in applied linguistics, second language acquisition, and cognitive and educational psychology.
Investigating the Role of Affective Factors in Second Language Learning Tasks
Author: Ágnes Albert
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2022-12-08
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 303120221X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides an overview of affective individual variables that are considered relevant for second language learning and outlines a novel approach to researching them. In the first part of the book, the most prominent concepts and theories in connection with affective individual variables and tasks are discussed, followed by a literature review of the most significant empirical studies conducted on the reviewed individual variables with the help of tasks. The second part of the monograph reports the findings of a research project which investigated the relationships of motivation, emotions, flow experiences, and self-efficacy beliefs of secondary school students studying English in Hungary. These constructs are examined at two levels: in connection with learners’ English classes in general and in connection with a particular language task, thus linking task performance measures to specific affective states experienced while performing a task and their general trait versions reported in connection with the language classes. Teacher interviews provide further insights into the language tasks used by the teachers of the students taking part in the study and their affective correlates. The book offers multi-level interpretations of the results, puts forward pedagogical implications, and delineates further research directions.
The Palgrave Handbook of Motivation for Language Learning
Author: Martin Lamb
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2020-01-11
Total Pages: 704
ISBN-13: 3030283801
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis handbook offers an authoritative, one-stop reference work for the dynamic and expanding field of language learning motivation. The 32 chapters have been specially commissioned from the field’s most influential researchers and writers. Together they present a compelling picture of the motivations people have for learning languages, the diverse ways we can research motivation, and the implications for promoting and sustaining learners’ motivation. The first section outlines the main theoretical approaches to language learning motivation; the next section presents ways in which motivation theory has been applied in practice; the third section showcases examples of motivation research in particular contexts and with particular types of language learners; and the final section describes the exciting directions that contemporary research is taking, promising important new insights for academics and practitioners alike.
Theories of Team Cognition
Author: Eduardo Salas
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-06-17
Total Pages: 665
ISBN-13: 1136697918
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCognitive processes in teams have been a valuable arena for team researchers to explore. Team cognition research advances and informs a variety of disciplines, including cognitive and social sciences, engineering, military science, organizational science, human factors, medicine, and communications. There has been a great deal of progress in the team cognition literature, yet the field is still in its early stages of maturity. There is much more to be gained from the field’s insights and there is a need to unite the diverse array of scholarly ideas that permeate the field. This movement will serve to organize the research and ideas that have surfaced in the field, thereby making them more accessible to different disciplines while at the same time, motivating continued progress in the field. This book aims to be a step in this direction and acts as a forum for leading scholars to share their ideas, theories, models, and conceptions about what matters and where more attention is needed in the field of team cognition.
