group role

a coherent set of behaviors expected of a person in a specific position within a group. In addition to the basic roles of leader and follower, groups usually allocate task roles pertaining to the group’s tasks and goals and relationship roles that focus on the group members’ interpersonal and emotional needs.

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Psychology term of the day

December 7th 2024

adequate sample

a sample that sufficiently represents the larger population from which it was drawn in terms of size, being large enough to provide satisfactory precision by minimizing the possibility of chance affecting the data obtained.