Exam 3: Perception and Individual Decision Making

What term is used for the tendency to underestimate the influence of external factors and overestimate the influence of internal factors when making judgments about the behavior of others?

What is the segment of the three-component model of creativity that is the foundation for all creative work?

Expectations can distort your perceptions in that you will see what you did not expect.

Your rating in a job interview is high in contrast to the candidate who was interviewed directly before you, who was rated extremely low. Your own high rating might be partially attributed to which of the following?

What is the name of the theory that deals with how we explain behavior differently depending on the meaning we assign to the actor?

What trait does a decision maker need to have if they are to fully appraise a problem and even see problems that others are not aware of?

Where is overconfidence most likely to surface?

Another name for the self-serving bias is the Pygmalion effect.

Discuss the three-component model of creativity.

In attribution theory, what is distinctiveness?

Well after you have started trying to make a decision, new information comes to light that implies that the drug may be able to be synthesized much more cheaply than was previously thought. -The group decides to continue the project so that all the resources already spent on it will not have been wasted. In this case the group has done which of the following?

The concept of bounded rationality uses previously tried-and-true solutions.

Perception refers to the way we organize and interpret the world around us.

When an individual looks at a target and attempts to interpret what he or she sees, that interpretation is heavily influenced by personal characteristics of the individual perceiver.

Well after you have started trying to make a decision, new information comes to light that implies that the drug may be able to be synthesized much more cheaply than was previously thought. -What must you try to avoid when integrating this new information?

What term is used for the tendency of an individual to attribute his own successes to internal factors while putting the blame for failures on external factors?

Men tend to analyze decisions more than women

One person's problem may be considered by another person to be a satisfactory state of affairs.

How is bounded rationality related to decision making?

Maysun has exceeded her budget by at least $200 every month for the last three months. After recognizing that this is a problem, she decides to use the rational decision-making model to decide what to do. What might be the next step she takes if she follows this model?