Exam 3: Perception, Attribution, and Diversity

Driving home from an auto repair shop,you find that the repair you just paid for wasn't done properly.Which of the following would increase your tendency to blame the mechanic's error on dispositional factors?

The perceiver's experience,needs,and ________ can affect his or her perceptions of a target.

Heloise was happy that the systems manager was fired.She incorrectly assumed that everyone else in the company was also happy.What perceptual tendency is at work here?

Frame-of-reference training is an example of an activity to manage workforce diversity.

The detrimental effects of gender stereotypes are reduced or removed when

The self-serving bias

The three main components of perception are

What organization has been recognized for its efforts in attracting and hiring older workers?

Social identities are relational and ________.

"Karen acts differently from everyone else,but Byron acts the same as everyone else." The speaker here is invoking a ________ cue to describe Karen's behaviour and a ________ cue to describe Byron's behaviour.

Define "perception." What are its three main components?

The tendency to take credit for successes and deny responsibility for failures is called the ________.

According to the text,a performance rater who is unfair and vindictive with regard to employees is engaging in harshness.

Employment interviewers tend to underweight positive information about job applicants.

Bob resigns from a job that most of his friends consider to be a very good job.Which of the following is a dispositional attribution of the reason for Bob's resignation?

The fact that people will explain the very same behaviour differently on the basis of events that happened after the behaviour occurred is suggested by

After writing an exam,Yani told everybody that he did not study very hard and spent the weekend partying and playing video games.However,when the exam grades were posted the following week,Yani told everybody that he never studied so hard for an exam in his life and he described himself as brilliant.What is this an example of?

Perceptual defence is

According to Bruner's model of perception,we are most open to cues about a target

If I make a situational attribution about your behaviour,I am more likely to reward you or punish you than if I make a dispositional attribution.