Exam 3: Perception and Individual Decision Making

What factors that operate to shape and sometimes distort perception reside in the perceiver, what factors reside in the target being perceived, and what factors reside in the context of the situation?

What segment of the three-component model of creativity encompasses personality characteristics that are associated with imagination?

Many ethical standards apply throughout the world, regardless of different cultures.

Decision making occurs as a reaction to a problem.

When individuals observe another person's behavior, they attempt to determine whether it is internally or externally caused. This phenomenon is most directly relevant to which of the following?

Individuals involved in the same situation will usually perceive that situation similarly.

You are part of a group making a decision about whether it is appropriate to discontinue research on a new drug. This new drug would save lives, but it is uncertain whether you can develop it within a reasonable time frame and at a reasonable cost. Your firm has already spent a small fortune on this drug. You have gathered so much information in preparation to making the decision that you are unable to sort the good information from the superfluous data. Your experience tells you that this project has merit. -What form of decision making are you using if you decide to continue the project on the basis that the project has merit?

Shortcuts in judging others include all of the following except .

What is the self-fulfilling prophecy?

Most decisions in the real world follow the rational model.

Who is most likely to engage in rumination?

Your manager never gives you the benefit of the doubt. When you were late back from lunch, he assumed that you had simply taken too much time. He never considered that the elevators were out and you had to walk up 10 flights of stairs. Your manager is guilty of _____ .

Intuitive decision making is a conscious process created out of experience.

Gadi is regarded by his peers as an extremely creative designer of watercraft. He attributes much of his success to his family: he was raised by a traditional boat builder and from a very early age was surrounded by boats and the people who made them. To what element of the three-component model of creativity does Gadi attribute his success?

What do we call the tendency for people to base their judgments on information that they can easily obtain?

To optimize an outcome, bounded rationality should be used.

Awareness that a problem exists and that a decision needs to be made is an analytical issue.

The three-component model of creativity proposes that individual creativity requires expertise, creative-thinking skills, and intrinsic task motivation.

What is the term used for an increased commitment to a previous decision in spite of negative information?

A committee is made up of 12 managers: three each from the sales, production, accounting, and human resources departments. They read a comprehensive study of the company they work for, and are asked which of its recommendations are most important. In discussion they find that the managers perceive that the most important recommendations are those concerning their own departments. This finding is most likely the result of what type of bias?