Exam 5: Perception and Individual Decision Making

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.

Which of the following is an example of externally caused behavior?

If you wish to emphasize the importance of making decisions consistent with fundamental liberties and privileges, the focus of your teaching will be on ________.

According to the attribution theory, if a behavior scores ________, we tend to attribute it to internal causes.

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

List and explain any four decision biases or errors.

An individual's place in the interview schedule may affect the interviewer's evaluation of the applicant. This is an example of confirmation bias.

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

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?

Which of the following statements is not an example of stereotyping?

Allison has just presented her paper and has done a really good job. Why should you not want to present your own paper directly after she does?

When we judge someone on the basis of our perception of the group to which he or she belongs, we are using the shortcut called stereotyping.

We don't evaluate a person in isolation. Our reaction to a person is influenced by other persons we have recently encountered. This is known as the ________.

In a study conducted by Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman, the two showed that when asked to guess the percentage of African nations which are members of the United Nations, people who were first asked "Was it more or less than 10%?" guessed lower values (25% on average) than those who had been asked if it was more or less than 65% (45% on average). This example best represents the ________

The confirmation bias is a tendency to fixate on initial information and fail to adequately adjust for subsequent information.

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

The ________ bias is a tendency to fixate on initial information and fail to adequately adjust for subsequent information.

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

Discuss the attribution theory.

Which of the following statements is true regarding creativity?