Exam 3: Perception and Individual Decision Making

You are the manager of a development group in a large computer software company. You have decided that it is important for your group to understand the many ways that ethical decisions can be made and you are designing a training program on the subject of ethics. You want to teach the decision criterion that currently dominates business decision-making. -Which decision criterion will you teach?

What sort of actions are most likely to be attributed to external causes?

The reality of a situation is what is behaviorally important.

Organizations can constrain decision makers by rewarding risk aversion.

Avoiding making decisions on a Monday could be an example of which bias?

Decision makers construct simplified models that extract the essential features from problems without capturing all their complexity. That is, they operate within the confines of _____.

It has been well documented that individuals escalate commitment to a failing course of action when they view themselves as responsible for the failure.

The students in your class are presenting their oral presentations in front of the entire class. You have heard that there are several frequently used shortcuts to judging others and are wondering if any of these are being used by your teacher. -You have heard that the teacher believes that men perform better in oral presentations than women. What shortcut has the teacher used in this case?

The concept of bounded rationality assumes that the decision maker will complicate the problem.

In attribution theory, "consensus" refers to whether an individual displays similar behaviors in similar situations.

What does consensus refer to in attribution theory?

Discuss three different criteria for ethical decision making.

The self-serving bias suggests that feedback provided to employees in performance reviews is very likely to be distorted by recipients.

Which of the following is an example of externally caused behavior?

What do we call it when we judge someone on the basis of our perception of the group to which he/she belongs?

The more consistent a behavior, the more the observer is inclined to _____ .

What is the term used for a general impression about an individual based on a single characteristic such as intelligence, sociability, or appearance?

You are on a team with two individuals who are "difficult." The work has been divided among the three of you, and each time your team meets, Jamelia and Jasper disagree about the progress of the team project. Jamelia is convinced that Jasper's lack of progress is because he is inherently lazy and not because of some overwhelming problem with the project itself. The truth seems to be that Jamelia is not doing her part of the work. -What might you use to try to understand Jamelia and Jasper's behavior?

What is the segment in the three-component model of creativity that turns creative potential into actual creative ideas?

In the real world what do people typically do?