Exam 6: Perception and Individual Decision Making

The three-component model of creativity proposes that individual creativity requires expertise, creative-thinking skills, and intrinsic task motivation.

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 ________.

Because it is impossible for us to assimilate everything we perceive, we engage in ________.

Which of the following is not an organizational constraint to decision making?

Shortcuts in judging people are applied in organizations. Which of the following is not an application of a judgement shortcut?

You are part of a group making a decision about whether it is appropriate to discontinue research on a new drug. This new drug would save lives, but it is uncertain whether you can develop it within a reasonable time frame and at a reasonable cost. Your firm has already spent a small fortune on this drug. You have gathered so much information in preparation to making the decision that you are unable to sort the good information from the superfluous data. You just feel that this project has merit. -What form of decision making are you using if you decide to continue the project on the basis that the project has merit?

The relationship of a target to its background influences our perception of that target.

What is the process by which individuals organize and interpret their sensory impressions in order to give meaning to their environment?

Shortcuts in judging others include all of the following except ________.

What is another name for a self-fulfilling prophecy?

What is the most relevant application of perception concepts to OB?

The more consistent a behavior, the more the observer is inclined to ________.

A satisficing decision maker ________.

Researchers today believe that intuition can be helpful in decision making because it ________.

Which of the following is not true about our perceptions of a target?

Janice is late for work each day by about ten minutes. How would attribution theory describe this behavior?

Brenda has been told that her students have been selected for her class because they are the most intelligent in their grade. She finds that they consistently perform above average work. This may be an example of a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Your boss never gives you the benefit of the doubt. When you arrived late from lunch, he assumed that you had simply taken too much time. He never considered that the elevators were out and you had to walk up 10 flights of stairs. Your boss is guilty of ________.

The justice criterion for decision making requires that individuals impose and enforce rules fairly and impartially so there is an equitable distribution of benefits and costs.

A committee is made up of 12 managers: three each from the sales, production, accounting, and human resources departments. They read a comprehensive study of the company they work for, and are asked which of its recommendations are most important. In discussion they find that the managers perceive that the most important recommendations are those concerning their own departments. This finding is most likely the result of what type of bias?