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Across 1. A consistent relationship between two or more variables. 3. Strong tendency to seek information that confirms our beliefs; ignoring information that contradicts our beiefs (2 words) 9. Pictures groups moving along three activity tracks: relational, and topic. (3 words) 12. Analyzing and evaluating ideas and information to reach sound judgements and conclusions. (2 words) 13. A binge-and-purge cycle of information processing. (2 words) 14. A subgroup develops a counterproposal and defends it side by side with the group’s initial proposal. (2 words) 15. Conclusions about the unknown based on what is known.

Down 2. Inventing superficial, glib alternative explanations for information that contradicts beliefs. (3 words) 4. The rate of information flow into a system or the complexity of that information exceeds the system capacity. (2 words) 5. Tendency to view the world in terms of only two opposing possibilities when other possibilities are available. (2 words) 6. A mode of thinking that people engage in when they are deeply involved in a cohesive in-group, and members’ strivings for unanimity override their motivation to realistically appraise alternative courses of action. 7. A graphic, outrageous, shocking, controversial, dramatic event draws our attention and sticks in our minds, prompting us to overvalue such events and undervalue statistical information that shows patterns and trends that often contradict the sensational event. (2 words) 8. A group role, sometimes assigned to a specific member, that requires the individual “for the sake of argument” to critique and question ideas and proposals that emerge during group discussion. (2 words) 10. A formally designated role in which the individual assigned the role raises questions in a nonaggressive manner regarding collective inferential error, confirmation bias, false dichotomies, and any of the myriad symptoms of groupthink that may arise during group discussions. (2 words) 11. Psychological and cognitive predispositions to see the world in a particular way