Question 1

What segment of the three-component model of creativity encompasses personality characteristics that are associated with imagination?

Accepted Answer

A)  expertise 
B)  creative thinking skills 
C)  intrinsic task motivation 
D)  intuition 
E)  realization

Question 2

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

Whenever Jane is successful she takes full credit for what has happened, but whenever she is unsuccessful she attributes her failure to bad luck or blames one of her fellow employees. She is guilty of ________.

Accepted Answer

A)  fundamental attribution error 
B)  attribution bias 
C)  the halo effect 
D)  distinctiveness 
E)  self-serving bias

Question 4

Where is overconfidence most likely to surface?

Accepted Answer

A)  outside your area of expertise 
B)  in your area of expertise 
C)  with more education and training 
D)  among higher wage earners 
E)  among older workers

Question 5

Rashid and a group of friends from Pakistan are going out to eat. At the restaurant the hostess tells them a bit distractedly, that there is no seating for the next two hours. Monica, a young Hispanic woman, and her boyfriend, arrive at the same restaurant a few minutes later, and are told the same thing by the same hostess in the same tone. They will probably perceive the situation similarly.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

Why do people satisfice?

Accepted Answer

A)  Resource restraints usually prevent people from entertaining all the options possible. 
B)  Solutions that solve a problem, even if they are not the best solution, are generally satisfactory. 
C)  Any solution that solves a problem will be considered to be acceptable if the other possible options are not explored. 
D)  In general, people lack the motivation to perform rational decision making fully. 
E)  They lack the capability to assimilate and understand all the information necessary to optimize.

Question 7

Ethical standards are less ambiguous in Asia than in the United States.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

How is bounded rationality related to common decision biases?

Accepted Answer

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Question 9

Perception refers to the way we organize and interpret the world around us.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

Explain the three components of creativity. How could a manager hinder or stimulate creativity in the workplace through perception biases? Name two biases and examples of how they would affect creativity.

Accepted Answer

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Question 11

David's boss has just moved his software testing deadline up by two days. David was working overtime to complete the assignment with the previous deadline, but now he doesn't see how it will be physically possible to test every aspect of the software by the new deadline. As a result, David will have to cut corners and only test certain aspects of the product. He is sure there will be bugs that go unnoticed. David is a victim of which organizational constraint?

Accepted Answer

A)  performance evaluations 
B)  reward systems 
C)  historical precedents 
D)  formal regulations 
E)  system-imposed time constraints

Question 12

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

Accepted Answer

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Question 13

What term is used for the tendency to underestimate the influence of external factors and overestimate the influence of internal factors when making judgments about the behavior of others?

Accepted Answer

A)  fundamental attribution error 
B)  self-serving bias 
C)  selective perception 
D)  consistency 
E)  actor bias

Question 14

List and explain eight common decision biases or errors.

Accepted Answer

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Question 15

The contrast effect suggests a candidate will be more highly evaluated if the previous interviews were also highly evaluated.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

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?

Accepted Answer

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Question 17

One person's problem may be considered by another person to be a satisfactory state of affairs.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

Discuss some of the errors in perceptual judgment made by interviewers in job interviews.

Accepted Answer

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Question 19

Interviewers make perceptual judgments that are generally accurate during an employment interview.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

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?

Accepted Answer

A)  intuitiveness 
B)  insight 
C)  task motivation 
D)  expertise 
E)  creativity skills

Exam 6: Perception and Individual Decision Making

What segment of the three-component model of creativity encompasses personality characteristics that are associated with imagination?

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

Whenever Jane is successful she takes full credit for what has happened, but whenever she is unsuccessful she attributes her failure to bad luck or blames one of her fellow employees. She is guilty of ________.

Where is overconfidence most likely to surface?

Why do people satisfice?

Ethical standards are less ambiguous in Asia than in the United States.

How is bounded rationality related to common decision biases?

Perception refers to the way we organize and interpret the world around us.

Explain the three components of creativity. How could a manager hinder or stimulate creativity in the workplace through perception biases? Name two biases and examples of how they would affect creativity.

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

What term is used for the tendency to underestimate the influence of external factors and overestimate the influence of internal factors when making judgments about the behavior of others?

List and explain eight common decision biases or errors.

The contrast effect suggests a candidate will be more highly evaluated if the previous interviews were also highly evaluated.

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?

One person's problem may be considered by another person to be a satisfactory state of affairs.

Discuss some of the errors in perceptual judgment made by interviewers in job interviews.

Interviewers make perceptual judgments that are generally accurate during an employment interview.