Exam 4: Perception,Attribution,and Learning

Contrived extrinsic rewards include all of the following EXCEPT:

Controlled processing occurs when a person consciously decides what information to pay attention to and what information to ignore.

All of the following are proposed as ways of building or enhancing self-efficacy EXCEPT:

The strongest impact of selective perception occurs in the __________ stage of the perceptual process.

Attribution theory aids in the process of perception interpretation by focusing on how people attempt to understand the causes of a certain event,assess responsibility for the outcomes of the event,and evaluate the personal qualities of the people involved in the event.

Script schemas combine schemas built around persons and events.

__________ is the administration of negative consequences or the withdrawal of positive consequences that tend to reduce the likelihood of repeating the behavior in similar settings.

Impression management is a person's systematic attempt to influence how others perceive us and flattering others to favorably impress them.

The effects of the self-fulfilling prophecy argue strongly for managers to adopt negative and pessimistic approaches to people at work.

Suppose you assign the least desirable tasks to a worker until he performs well and only then assign him the desired assignments he wants.This OB Mod strategy is known as __________.

The factors that contribute to perceptual differences and the perceptual process among people at work include characteristics of the perceiver,the setting,and the perceived.

Impersonal schemas refer to the way individuals divide others into categories,such as types or groups,in terms of similar perceived features.

Like stereotypes,halo effects are most likely to occur in the interpretation stage of the perceptual process.

What is the perception process? Why is it important? Suggested

According to the work of Albert Bandura,an individual uses modeling but not the vicarious learning to acquire behavior by observing and imitating others.

When teachers score students introduced as intellectually gifted higher than average students,they are demonstrating the perceptual error of the __________.

Suppose that a supervisor wants more of a particular behavior from his/her employees and that he/she establishes positive behavioral consequences for each individual in order get the desired behavior.The supervisor is applying __________.

A weekly or monthly paycheck is an example of a(n)__________ reinforcement schedule.

William Walker works in a very busy and noisy environment.As a result,he frequently has to consciously decide what information to pay attention to and what information to ignore.Walker is using __________ as a mechanism for information attention and selection.

Which of the following statements best describes the self-fulfilling prophecy?