Exam 4: Beliefs,values and Attitudes: Determinants of Human Behavior

During this stage,a new paradigm materializes and the discipline shifts to it.

There are eight steps in the Kuhn cycle.

Attitudes that are value-specific and have been acquired through personal experiences are NOT ________.

The factor setting us apart from all other animals is the extent to which we engage in ________.

The process by which a group's beliefs,values,attitudes,and norms are inculcated into each member's psyche is called ________.

The degree to which an attitude directly influences one's behavior is referred to as ________.

A "synergistic effect" occurs what a work group's performance is greater than the sum of its individual efforts.

Egocentric individuals are inclined to be suspicious and disruptive at work.

Valence refers to ________.

Ideas that people in a group share about themselves and the physical,biological,and social world in which they live are ________.

Strong and enduring beliefs about conduct or appropriate states of existence are known as ________.

Good managers are ________ who temper bureaucratic values with ________ for employees to accomplish the mission and objectives.

Perception is a mental screen through which information must pass before it can be integrated into human thought processes and behaviors.

________ occurs when there are a number of anomalies which occur that the model or paradigm cannot explain.

People will change their work behaviors even if there is no compelling need to do so.

For group shared beliefs,values,attitudes,and norms,to function effectively as prescriptive guides to appropriate human behavior,they must be ________.

Inherited behavior involves cognitive adaptations to conditions in an individual environment.

People who derive satisfaction from interacting with each other in a consistent and coordinating way while they pursue common goals or objectives generally see themselves as ________.

One way to organize sensory data about people is to simply assume they all have the same characteristics because they are members of the same category or group.This is called ________.

A Model Crisis occurs when the drift becomes so extreme that the model is not working and is no longer reliable,nor feasible to utilize for solving problems.