Exam 6: Perception and Individual Decision Making

Contrast the fundamental attribution error and the self-serving bias.

The more optimistic the entrepreneurs, the less successful the performance of their new ventures. Which of the following systematic biases and errors creep into their judgments?

Gene is regarded by his peers as an extremely creative designer of watercraft. He attributes much of his success to his family: he was raised by a traditional boat builder and from a very early age was surrounded by boats and the people who made them. To what element of the three-component model of creativity does Gene attribute his success?

Our tendency to believe we have some control over our world and our destiny and that we can predict the outcome of random events is the ________.

William believes Ronnie is a hardworking individual because Ronnie always dresses nicely and wears well-tailored suits. Which short-cut is William using to judge Ronnie?

The three-component model of creativity proposes that individual creativity essentially requires expertise, creative thinking skills, and ________.

Two people see the same thing at the same time yet interpret it differently. In this situation, factors that operate to shape their dissimilar perceptions reside in the ________.

Randy always turns in reports with punctuation errors. The reports of the three other employees on the QA report writing team always produce grammatically clean reports. Randy is about to turn in another report, and his manager has already noticed errors. Randy demonstrates ________. His sloppy reports can be attributed to an ________ cause.

We tend to accept at face value information that is consistent with our preconceived views, while we are critical and skeptical of information that challenges these views. This represents the ________ bias.

Which of the following terms best describes the tendency to underestimate the influence of external factors and overestimate the influence of internal factors when making judgments about the behavior of others?

________ refers to staying with a decision even when there is clear evidence it's wrong.

Those who spend extensive periods of time in other cultures generate more innovative solutions to problems.

The ________ bias is typically associated with negotiation.

You are more likely to notice cars like your own due to ________.

Explain how stereotyping can cause problems for some managers when making ethical decisions. Provide an example.

What is escalation of commitment?

People who carefully gather and consider information consistent with the rational decision-making model are more likely to engage in which of the following decision-making errors?

In the ethical yardstick of ________, decisions are made solely on the basis of their outcomes, ideally to provide the greatest good for the greatest number.

The first ethical yardstick is utilitarianism, in which decisions are made solely on the basis of their outcomes, ideally to provide the greatest good for the greatest number.

Which of the following is a component of the three-component model of creativity that encompasses certain personality characteristics of an individual such as the ability to use analogies?