Exam 6: Perception and Individual Decision Making

Describe and explain the causes of creative behavior.

Which of the following is a shortcut used in judging others by making generalizations?

What is anchoring bias?

Johanna Murray, a climate campaigner at The National Footprint Foundation, is known in her organization to be a campaigner of caliber and high performance. She recently worked on a campaign against global warming during which she worked extremely hard to achieve project milestones. However, the campaign failed as it could not achieve the desired objective. Due to this, her manager, Brenda Owens, gave her a poor performance appraisal. In the appraisal, Brenda said that Johanna was not motivated and failed to reach out to 25,000 people through Internet media to spread awareness about climate change. Which of the following, if true, weakens Brenda's statement?

What is perception? Discuss the factors that influence perception.

A manager believes that he should not hire older workers because they can't learn new skills. This belief is an example of ________.

Which of the following is a factor present in a perceiver which may affect perception?

An organization's reward system influences decision makers by suggesting which choices have better personal payoffs.

Jeanne Edwards works as a campaign manager at Rainforest Alliance Trust, a forest protection organization in Indonesia. She is currently working on the Palm Oil Campaign, which aims to establish stringent laws against companies which aggravate deforestation by extracting palm oil for commercial use. Her role is to establish allies with other forest protection organizations and companies which use eco-friendly products that set good examples for other companies to follow. Jeanne allied with Griffin and Powell, a large multinational company, which, unknown to Jeanne, also has strong ties with local logging groups in Jakarta. Which of the following, if true, would strengthen the argument that Jeanne had an availability bias while establishing an ally with the company?

________ explains the ways in which we judge people differently, depending on the meaning we assign to a given behavior.

In an interview, information elicited early from an interviewee carries greater weight than information elicited later.

A candidate is likely to receive a more favorable evaluation if preceded by mediocre applicants and a less favorable evaluation if preceded by strong applicants. This is an example of the halo effect.

If a person responds to a particular situation in the same way over a long time period, then the attribution theory states that the behavior demonstrates ________.