Question 1

Explain how attitudes affect leadership.

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Question 2

The halo effect occurs when perceivers see their own personal traits in other people.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

refers to the degree to which a person is outgoing, sociable, talkative, and comfortable meeting and talking to new people.

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Question 4

Explain the role of values in leadership.

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Question 5

Anna works as a sales executive.She has difficulty meeting her productivity targets but she has high readiness levels and her work exceeds quality standards.However, her manager considers her to be a poor performer due to her issue with productivity.In the given scenario, the manager's evaluation of Anna's performance is an example of the

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A) fundamental attribution error 
B) halo effect 
C) self-serving bias 
D) perceptual defense

Question 6

According to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) assessment, people with a perceiving preference:

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A) like closure. 
B) enjoy ambiguity. 
C) like deadlines. 
D) enjoy having goals.

Question 7

According to Hemnann's whole brain concept, people who rely heavily on quadrant-B thinking:

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A) rely on less direct perceptions. 
B) like certainty. 
C) gain energy from being around others. 
D) absorb information through the five senses.

Question 8

The dimension of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) assessment concerns an individual's attitudes toward ambiguity and how quickly a person makes a decision.

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A) sensing versus intuition 
B) thinking versus feeling 
C) judging versus perceiving 
D) introversion versus extroversion

Question 9

A person's defines whether he or she places the primary responsibility within the self or on outside forces.

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Question 10

Describe the personality dimensions of extroversion and agreeableness.

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Question 11

Which of the following accounts for tremendous variation among people?

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A) Everyone cannot have both instrumental and end values. 
B) Everyone has similar important goals to reach in life. 
C) Individuals differ in how they order their values into priorities. 
D) Individuals have end values which fall into different categories of morality and competence.

Question 12

Which of the following statements is true of the whole brain concept?

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A) It proves that the concept of left-brained versus right-brained thinking is entirely accurate physiologically. 
B) It does not consider a person's preference for right-brained versus left-brained thinking. 
C) It considers a person's preference for conceptual versus experiential thinking. 
D) It does not support the idea that everyone uses both left-brained and right-brained thinking.

Question 13

is the set of unseen characteristics and processes that underlie a relatively stable pattern of behavior in response to ideas, objects, or people in the environment.

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Question 14

Cognitive approaches are preferences that are not necessarily rigid, but most people tend to have only a few preferred habits of thought.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

Which of the following statements is true of self-awareness?

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A) Self-awareness means the ability to behave in a uniform manner in response to situational cues. 
B) Self-awareness involves the ability to emotionally evaluate one's own worth. 
C) Self-awareness means the set of unseen characteristics and processes that underlie a person. 
D) Self-awareness involves appreciating how one's patterns affect other people.

Question 16

A leader who scores high on agreeableness:

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A) seems warm and approachable. 
B) tends to become anxious or tense. 
C) likes to be in control and have influence over others. 
D) comes across as quiet and withdrawn.

Question 17

What guidelines can leaders use to work more effectively with different personality types?

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Question 18

Norman heads the animation team of Progress Inc.When one of his subordinates failed to execute a task properly, he said that his subordinate was not provided with enough resources to take care of the quality assurance after production.This judgment made by Norman is an instance of .

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A) the fundamental attribution error 
B) the self-serving bias 
C) an external attribution 
D) perceptual defense

Question 19

means the process people use to make sense out of their surroundings by selecting, organizing, and interpreting information.

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Question 20

Helen, the operations head of an organization, received a complaint stating that one of the managers was regularly harassing his subordinates.Instead of taking action, she neglected the issue as she had high regard for the manager.She was sure that the allegations against the manager were not true.In the given scenario, the assumption made by Helen is an example of .

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A) projection 
B) the halo effect 
C) perceptual defense 
D) stereotyping

Exam 4: The Leader As an Individual