Exam 3: Perception, Attribution, and Diversity

The actor-observer effect refers to the remarkable similarity in the attributions that the actor and an observer make about the actor's behaviour.

________ is the process of assigning causes to behaviour.

Halo effect can cause a person to receive a bad performance evaluation.

Knowing that a person falls into some social category,we might assume that he or she possesses certain traits,and that everyone in this category possesses these traits.This is an example of

Gender stereotypes have less negative effects when an observer has accurate knowledge about the woman in question.

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

If recency is operating within a selection interview,the job candidate would be well advised to

Ellen is an employment interviewer.One day she interviews three job applicants and rates the third applicant very negatively.If the contrast effect is responsible for this negative rating,we can be sure that the first two applicants were

Recent research indicates that both men and women of varying age,education,and work experience still describe a good manager as possessing predominantly masculine characteristics.

Because the employee was not creative,Jan tended to rate her unfairly low on all performance categories.Jan has fallen prey to ________.

Gloria is absent a lot,her co-workers are seldom absent,and she was absent a lot in her previous job.What kind of attribution is her manager likely to make?

Your interest in music and your musical talents can contribute to your personal identity.

Most small and medium-sized organizations across Canada are not likely to fill a job opening with someone older than 65 now or in the future.

Women have made the most significant progress moving into senior management and executive positions in the paper and forest products industry.

Define the meaning of trust and describe what managers can do to improve employees' trust perceptions towards management.

What factors threaten the validity of the employment interview? What can be done to improve the validity of the employment interview?

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.

Joan was poorly treated in an employment interview and perceived the organization as lacking respect for its employees.What is this an example of?

Your gender,religion,and occupation are important in the formation of your personal identity.

Male managers today hold the same dysfunctional stereotypes about women and management that they held in the early 1970s.