Exam 4: Perceptions and Attributions

According to the Across Cultures Competency: McDonald's Use of Feng Shui,Bryan Carmack,the manager,say "We wanted to make the restaurant a little bit more of a destination.The goal is to maximize our profit by making people have a more relaxed state of mind."

The essence of the Pygmalion effect is that people's expectations determine their behavior or performance,but this doesn't help make their expectations come true.

When an interviewer is negatively predisposed toward a job candidate because the candidate is from a different background than the interviewer,which perceptual error is most likely to occur?

In the Self Competency: Doing Business in Arab Countries,all of the following are true except:

All of the following are among the antecedents that interact to result in the perceived causes of behavior except:

All of the following statements about the perceptual process are correct except:

Under conditions of low consensus,low distinctiveness,and low consistency,the perceiver will tend to attribute the behavior of the perceived to internal causes.

Selection and organization are the key words in the definition of perception.

The process by which people filter out most stimuli so that they can deal with the more important ones is referred to as:

Perceptual defense is the tendency for people to protect themselves against ideas,objects,or situations that are threatening to themselves.

According to Learning from Experience: Jim Sinegal,the cofounder,president,and CEO of Costco Wholesale,believes that customers shop at Costco for/because

To increase the likelihood of being positive Pygmalions,managers should remember:

If the boss perceives a subordinate as a strong performer,which of the following behaviors are likely:

When an interviewer examines a mediocre applicant and then rates the following average applicants too high,which error has occurred?

______ determines the development of perceptual sets.

____ is the tendency for people to protect themselves against ideas,objects,or situations that are threatening.

According to the Self Competency: Doing Business in Arab Countries,when receiving a gift,it is customary for Arab businesspeople to:

A central question in the attribution process concerns how perceivers determine whether the behavior of another person stems from internal causes or external causes.

In the process of attribution management,the tactic of self-promotion could involve an employee reminding his boss of his past accomplishments and associating with coworkers who are evaluated highly.

Bartenders often put their own money in their tip jars at the beginning of the evening to give the impression to customers that others have tipped them.This is an example of impression management.