Exam 6: Perception and Individual Decision Making

________ is a highly complex and highly developed form of reasoning that is based on years of experience and learning.

The three criteria for making ethical decisions are ________.

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 ________.

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

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

________ theory tries to explain the ways in which we judge people differently, depending on the meaning we attribute to a given behavior.

Business schools generally train students to follow ________ decision-making models.

Which of the following statements is true regarding creativity?

William thinks that all good looking people are kind and hardworking. In this example, the shortcut used by William to judge others is called the ________.

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

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?

According to the attribution theory, if a behavior scores high on consensus and distinctiveness, we tend to consider it as an internally caused behavior.

When neither the perceiver nor the target has changed, which of the following factors influences perception?

Attribution theory uses three factors to determine if a person's behavior is caused internally or externally. One of these three factors is consensus. It indicates if ________.

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.

Which of the following is a component of the three-component model that is considered as the foundation for all creative work?

Discuss four shortcuts used in judging others.

What is bounded rationality? How is it related to decision making?

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 ________.

While negotiating salary with your prospective employer, if you suggest an initial target salary of $55,000, your employer will consider $50,000 to $60,000 a reasonable range for negotiation, but if you mention $55,650, your employer is more likely to consider $55,000 to $56,000 the range of likely values for negotiation. In this example your employer is exhibiting the ________ bias.