Exam 4: Perceptions and Attributions

_______ proposed that impression management is a theatrical process.

Describe the Pygmalion effect.

Like everyone,managers use schemas to make better sense of information.List three of the schemas discussed in the text.

Stereotyping occurs in the ______ phase of the perception process.

According to attribution theory,it is the event itself,not the perceived cause of the event,that influences a person's behavior.

________________ occurs when a person must divide his or her mental efforts among tasks,each of which requires some amount of attention (multitasking).

According to the law of __________,stimuli that are similar in size,color,shape,or form tend to be grouped together.

What "laws" help determine how information is perceived.

The self-serving bias leads us to conclude when we succeed that our success was _______________.

_______________ has the lowest long-term unemployment rate among industrialized nations.

"We lost over 30 percent of the market,but the economy went sour for everyone" would be an example of a job applicant using the _____________ tactic of impression management.

Perception is defined as the process by which an individual _______________ to environmental stimuli.

The press of time,the attitudes of the people you work with,and other situational factors all influence perceptual _______________.

Coach Smith is told one of his new players is a gifted athlete.The coach immediately focuses on that player and spends additional time helping him develop his skills.As the coach expected,the player turned out to be an excellent addition to the team.This example shows the __________ effect.

The stimuli that a person focuses on is based on what he or she chooses to pay attention to at a particular moment.

Dean Jones sees that every student in a Management class received an "A." She assumes that the class must have been too easy because students don't work hard.This is an example of __________________.

A student is presented a picture that contains a collection of black spots on a white background.The student perceives that the picture is of a Dalmatian (a spotted dog).This may be an example of the law of ____________.

Stereotyping and prejudice are equivalent terms.

Identify and briefly describe the laws of perceptional grouping.

Bob has to conduct a performance review two days from now.He has written a script of sorts for the session and has been rehearsing its delivery.Which schema is Bob using?