Exam 3: Perceiving Ourselves and Others in Organizations

The fundamental attribution error refers to the tendency to attribute the behavior of other people to internal factors more than external factors.

Social identity theory states that we define ourselves by the groups to which we belong or have an emotional attachment.

Most categorical thinking occurs without our awareness.

In the Johari Window, feedback from others helps us to:

Comment on the accuracy of the following statement: The self-fulfilling prophecy can be an effective management practice.

According to the halo effect, a supervisor's initial expectations of you influence your behavior so that you are more likely to act consistently with those expectations in the consequent encounters.

People who believe that their successful completion of a project is due to their skill and hard work are making an internal attribution.

Self-concept complexity, consistency, and clarity influence a person's well-being, behavior, and performance.

A person's annual performance evaluation is heavily influenced by performance results of the last month.This is an example of recency effect.

Diversity training is the best way to minimize perceptual biases.

You are a high achievement-oriented person.You are more likely to be influenced by self-fulfilling prophecy effect than the low-achievement oriented people.

Employees who are thinking of quitting their jobs believe that a large percentage of their co-workers are also thinking about quitting.This perceptual error is called the halo effect.

The process where people are motivated to confirm and maintain their existing self-concept is known as:

Which of the following improves self-awareness and mutual understanding that is founded on the contact hypothesis?

The primacy effect refers to the phenomenon of forming an opinion of other people based on the first information perceived.

The recency effect is most common when:

People tend to make an internal attribution about someone's behavior if that person has typically not acted in a similar way either in the past or in other situations.

Which of the following occurs most likely due to confirmation bias?

Which of the following is true about developing a global mindset?

If you form a general negative impression of a person based on one prominent characteristic, and it affects your perception of other characteristics of that person, it is called: