Question

Your summer job as a counselor at a at the municipal zoo's day camp has provided you with the opportunity to observe social psychological phenomena. Your group of nine-year-olds, the Tigers, routinely competes against other groups of nine-year-olds in trivia contests, scavenger hunts, and other activities. They also participate in traditional arts and crafts and other noncompetitive activities. Based on your knowledge, which circumstance would you most expect to see?

Answer 1

the Tigers cooperating more within the group when competing against other groups

Cooperation increases within groups when they perceive an external threat.

Step-by-step explanation:

In social psychology and more specific in group psychology, the more a group feels grounded and have more group identity, structure, clear roles and goals, the more cooperation within the group will increase.

If there is a threat that may affect said group, all the members of the group will play the part in order to mitigate the possible danger.

In this particular case, The tiger is becoming an established groupg and the more they participate against other groups the more group identity the will get, group structure and clear roles and goals, thus allowing cooperation to arise.