Exam 4: Perceptions and Attributions

A race,gender,and age bias occurs when an interviewer is positively predisposed toward a job candidate because the candidate went to the same university as the interviewer.

When an interviewer examines an outstanding applicant and then rates the following average applicants too low,which error has occurred?

If the boss perceives a subordinate as a weak performer,all of the following behaviors are more likely except:

During the 2008 presidential election,a Democrat newspaper editor wrote an editorial arguing that John McCain had a basic character flaw,since he had apparently behaved unethically in a business deal and had been accused of insider trading.The author of the editorial was hoping that readers would develop a(n):

All of the following are among the major factors used to explain how people make causal attributions of behavior except:

Define person perception,and describe the relationship of this process to the more general process of perception.

Motion and repetition are internal factors that influence perceptual selection.

Research has shown that supervisors may be more likely to attribute poor performance to external causes for low-status employees than for high-status employees.

According to the Self Competency: Doing Business in Arab Countries,in Arab countries managers usually just run the business at work and do not interact with employees outside work.

The process by which people select,organize,____ and ____ information from the world around them is referred to as perception.

Explain what the fundamental attribution error is,and give an example.

Interviewers have a tendency to compare job candidates to other candidates interviewed at the same time rather than to some absolute standard.This is an example of a(n)____ error in perception.

A contrast error has occurred when interviewers overreact to negative information as though looking for an excuse to disqualify a job candidate.

An example of an external factor that influences perceptual selection is:

A well-known folk song suggests that we "hear what we want to hear and disregard the rest." This statement best describes:

According to Ethics Competency: The Gap,high worker turnover (more than 60 percent)is common in the apparel industry and is a significant contributor to production costs.

If you get fired from a job,and then get an interview for a new job,what should you not do at the interview:

Under conditions of low consensus,low distinctiveness,and high consistency,the perceiver will tend to attribute the behavior of the perceived to:

____ refers to the ways in which people come to understand the causes of their own and other's behavior.

According to the Self Competency: Doing Business in Arab Countries,in Arab countries you should compliment a male host on the beauty of his wife.