Exam 3: Perception, Attribution, and Diversity

A review of male and female performance reviews found that

According to the text, a performance rater who is unfair and vindictive with regard to employees is engaging in harshness.

________ bias can overcome the tendency for actors to attribute their behaviour to situational factors.

Exaggerating the weight of cues obtained early in an interaction with someone is the hallmark of the ________.

LGBTQ women report a friendlier workplace and fewer hurdles than LGBTQ men.

The perception that a person might be judged on the basis of stereotype and that their behaviour or performance may be hindered by it is known as a(n)________.

Perceptual defence is

Older workers are discriminated against the most, followed by younger workers, and then middle-aged workers.

The perceiver's experience, needs, and ________ can affect his or her perceptions of a target.

Which of the following has been found to be associated with business-unit performance?

We tend to see members of a category as embodying the most typical attributes of that category, or what are called ________.

According to Bruner's model of the perceptual process, when an unfamiliar target is encountered, we are likely to be ________ to target cues.Once the target has been categorized, however, we become ________ selective in our cue search.

"Heathcliffe only acts pretentious at work.Everywhere else he's down to earth." In attribution theory terms, the speaker has invoked a(n)________ cue.

The similar-to-me effect means that we often attribute our own feelings, attitudes, and ideas to others.

Higher perceptions of management ability, benevolence, and integrity are associated with greater perceptions of ________.

According to signalling theory, job applicants interpret performance appraisals as signals of how they will be treated in the organization.

________ CEO Tim Cook became the first CEO of a Fortune 500 company to publicly announce that he was gay.

If I make a situational attribution about your behaviour, I am more likely to reward you or punish you than if I make a dispositional attribution.

The ACME Insurance Company has tried to achieve a diverse workforce, but they have had difficulty changing a workforce that has historically not been all that diverse.If you were hired as the new manager of human resources, what actions would you take to achieve and manage a diverse workforce?

Central tendency is our propensity to organize perceptions of others around certain key traits.