Exam 12: Foundations of Individual Behavior

Personality is defined as a unique combination of behavioral, emotional, and thinking patterns that each person has.

Rather than try to make employees happy, managers might do well to focus on making work ________.

Attitudes are evaluative statements concerning objects, people, or events.

Studies show that the statement, "Happy workers are productive workers," is ________

When people judge someone on the basis of the perception of a group they are a part of, they are using the shortcut called ________.

After spending several hours looking over an architect's plans, Wendy formed a new impression for a new building design. Which component of attitude did she change?

In a short essay, define attitude and discuss the three components that make up an attitude.

Perceptual shortcuts are not necessarily distorted.

Any relatively permanent change in behavior that occurs as a result of experience is known as ________.

Emotional intelligence and academic intelligence are virtually identical.

In attribution theory, if a person is conscientious in five separate tasks, but in the sixth task fails to be conscientious, this task is said to have ________.