Marilyn was just hired to work at a college administration office as part of an admissions team. She is not exactly sure what she is supposed to be doing or who to ask when she has a question. She also would like to know how many breaks she can take, and if she can leave for lunch. Marilyn is in the stage of team development.

Marilyn is in the FORMING STAGE OF TEAM DEVELOPMENT.

Explanation: Stages of team development was a model proposed by Bruce Tuckman in 1965, who said that these phases are all necessary and inevitable in order for the team to grow.

He identified the stages of team development to be the forming stage; storming stage; norming stage; performing stage.

He explained the forming stage to be the stage whereby team members meets and learns about the opportunities and challenges involved in the development of the team. Here, most team members have no idea of what to do.

experiments.

surveys.

questionnaires.

interviews.

case studies.

participant and non-participant observation.

observational trials.

studies using the delphi method.

answer; form new memories;