Exam 10: Understanding Individual Behavior

Loyalty to and heavy involvement in one's organization refers to organizational commitment.

A positive attitude toward one's job is called cognitive attitude.

Low Machs are particularly good in jobs that require bargaining skills or that involve substantial rewards for winning.

Briefly describe the perception process.

Teresa is highly imaginative and an artistically sensitive individual who displays a high degree of creativity. According to the Big Five personality factors, these qualities describe her openness to experience.

People with an internal locus of control are easier to motivate because they believe the rewards are the result of their behavior.

Which of the following is the uncertainty about what behaviors are expected of a person in a particular role?

Roy is a top executive at a cigarette manufacturing company who believes that cigarettes are dangerous products and they kill people. This condition can be described as:

Errors in perceptual judgment that arise from inaccuracies in any part of the perception process are called_________ .

Which of the following is defined as the tendency to direct much of one's behavior toward the acquisition of power and the manipulation of others for personal gain?

Which of the following refers to the tendency to place the primary responsibility for one's success or failure either within oneself or on outside forces?

Social awareness is the ability to connect to others, build positive relationships, respond to the emotions of others, and influence others.

The Sensation-Thinking style prefers dealing with theoretical or technical problems.

Individuals who believe that they control their own destiny are described as having a:

The_________ occurs when the perceiver develops an overall impression of a person or situation based on one attribute, either favorable or unfavorable.

Jay is a trusting and forgiving individual who gets along with others because of being good-natured and cooperative. This describes which of the Big Five personality factors?

Josh evaluates Kandi's performance and gives her an "outstanding" based on his knowledge that she came to work everyday earlier than anyone else and therefore she is extremely hardworking. Josh is making which of these errors in perceptual judgment?

_________is the degree to which a person is able to get along with others by being good-natured, cooperative, forgiving, understanding, and trusting.

Loyalty to and heavy involvement in one's organization is called _________.

The degree to which a person is able to get along with others by being good-natured, likable, cooperative, forgiving, understanding, and trusting is agreeableness.