Exam 6: Perception and Individual Decision Making

What is the first step in the rational decision-making model?

Which of the following statements is true regarding the hindsight bias?

With reference to decision making, satisficing involves ________.

Under times of stress, gender affects the decision making process.

What are the three generally accepted constructs of decision making each of us employs to make determinations?

Decision makers construct simplified models that extract the essential features from problems without capturing all their complexity. That is, they operate within the confines of ________.

Of the five constraints of decision making, which is most likely to be affected by risk aversion?

We use a number of shortcuts when we judge others. All of the following are shortcuts that we use to judge others except ________.

Passive positive moods, such as calm, are more conducive to creativity than moods such as happiness that encourage interaction with the world.

Creativity is positively linked to each of these traits except ________.

You are responsible for the annual holiday toy drive at your workplace. Every few days, you send out an email of how many items have been collected and post a picture of one of your coworkers putting a toy in the box. What influence tactic are you trying?

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 ________.

From the 1930s through the mid-1980s, General Motors consistently gave promotions and bonuses to managers who kept a low profile and avoided controversy. This is an example of which of the following organizational constraints?

Robbie and Brent are both coaches for a city youth baseball league which has recently experienced a five game losing streak. Robbie is concerned that the team is not practicing enough while Brent thinks that it is just a slump. The discrepancy within their thoughts is explained by ________.

The ________ bias can explain why managers doing performance appraisals give more weight to recent employee behaviors than to behaviors of 6 or 9 months earlier.

Loud people are more likely to be noticed in a group than quiet ones. So, too, are extremely attractive or unattractive individuals. Which of the following statements best explains the reason behind this fact?

What factors that operate to shape and sometimes distort perception reside in the perceiver, what factors reside in the target being perceived, and what factors reside in the context of the situation in which the perception is made?

Jennifer has already presented two excellent reports. The third report she has just presented is clearly not as good as the first two reports, yet she is given the same high grade as before. What shortcut has the teacher used in this case?

Samantha's rating in a job interview is high in contrast to the candidate who was interviewed directly before her, who was rated extremely low. In this case, Samantha's high rating can be partially attributed to the ________.

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 ________.