Exam 3: Personality, Perception, and Attribution

Match the following: -Self-Monitoring

When a female softball player is given more applause for a home run hit than a male teammate, the reason would most likely be due to:

Suppose, for example, that a sales manager is evaluating the performance of his employees. One employee does not get along well with colleagues and rarely completes sales reports on time. This employee, however, generates the most new sales contracts in the office. The sales manager chooses to ignore the negative information and evaluates the salesperson only on contracts generated. The manager is exercising:

Match the following: -Judger

The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory:

The approach to the study of personality that focuses on both person (dispositions) and situational variables as combined predictors of behavior is known as:

Match the following: -Individual differences

The traits associated with high-performing employees are:

Match the following: -First impression

Which of the following personality types would most likely display the most consistent behavior "across situations"?

All of the following are characteristics of the target that influence social perception except:

High achievers are more likely to attribute their success to others and good luck.

Low self-monitors tend to:

Match the following: -Sensor

When you encounter a warm and personable car salesperson and don't assume that this behavior reflects the salesperson's personality, you are using which principle in social perception?

According to the proponents of interactional psychology, all of the following are correct except:

The basis for understanding individual differences stems from:

The tendency to make attributions to internal causes when focusing on someone else's behavior is:

The primacy effect is also known as:

When a manager makes the attribution that an employee's lack of effort or ability is the basis for poor performance, they are probably making an error called: