Question 1

Recent surveys indicate that the majority of working individuals strongly trust in their top management.

Accepted Answer

Surveys often show mixed results regarding trust in top management, with many employees expressing skepticism or lack of trust.

Question 2

Organizing the selected data into patterns for interpretation and response is the last step in the perception process.

Accepted Answer

Organizing the selected data into patterns for interpretation and response is the final step in the perception process.

Question 3

From attributions viewpoint, if the behavior is distinctive, the perceiver probably will make an internal attribution.

Accepted Answer

Distinctive behavior typically leads to an external attribution, as it suggests the behavior is specific to a particular situation or context rather than the individual's inherent traits.

Question 4

Proximity is the tendency to group sensory data because they are alike in some way.

Accepted Answer

Proximity refers to the tendency to group sensory data based on their closeness or nearness to each other, not because they are alike.

Question 5

The tendency to see one's own personal traits in other people refers to attribution.

Accepted Answer

The tendency to see one's own personal traits in other people is known as projection, not attribution. Attribution refers to how people explain the causes of behavior and events.

Question 6

Organizations don't want to lose talented, highly skilled workers, so they try to create an atmosphere of job satisfaction.

Accepted Answer

Organizations understand the importance of retaining talented and skilled workers and therefore strive to create a work environment that fosters job satisfaction in order to keep their employees happy and productive.

Question 7

The degree to which a person is able to get along with others by being good-natured, likable, cooperative, forgiving, understanding, and trusting is agreeableness.

Accepted Answer

Agreeableness refers to a person's ability to be cooperative, friendly, and easy to get along with. It includes traits such as being good-natured, likable, forgiving, understanding, and trusting.

Question 8

From attributions viewpoint, if the behavior is in consensus, the perceiver will probably respond to similar situations in the same way.

Accepted Answer

If the behavior is in consensus, the perceiver assumes that the behavior is a common response to the situation, and therefore, they will likely respond similarly in similar situations. This is because they believe that the behavior is caused by the situation rather than the individual's personality or characteristics. Thus, there is a high chance that the perceiver will respond in the same way to similar situations in the future.

Question 9

An internal attribution says something about the situation has caused the person's behavior.

Accepted Answer

An internal attribution says that the person's behavior is caused by his or her personality, traits, or abilities. It is the external attribution that says something about the situation has caused the person's behavior.

Question 10

Loyalty to and heavy involvement in one's organization refers to organizational commitment.

Accepted Answer

Organizational commitment involves an individual's attachment and commitment to their organization, including a sense of loyalty and high involvement in the organization's goals and mission.

Question 11

A halo blinds the perceiver to other attributes that should be used in generating a more complete assessment.

Accepted Answer

A halo effect occurs when an overall positive impression of a person or thing influences the perception of individual traits or characteristics, leading to a biased evaluation. This means that the perceiver may overlook or ignore negative attributes and focus only on positive ones, resulting in an incomplete assessment.

Question 12

Job satisfaction is work behavior that goes beyond job requirements and contributes as needed to the organization's success.

Accepted Answer

Job satisfaction is an attitude or feeling about one's job, not a behavior. It reflects how content an individual is with their job, whereas behaviors that go beyond job requirements are typically referred to as organizational citizenship behaviors.

Question 13

Self-serving bias is when people give themselves too much credit for what they do well and give external forces too much blame when they fail.

Accepted Answer

Self-serving bias is a well-known cognitive bias where individuals tend to attribute their successes to internal factors such as their own abilities, skills, and talents, while blaming external factors such as luck, chance, or other people for their failures. This bias highlights the tendency of people to take credit for their successes but disassociate themselves from their failures by attributing them to situational or external factors.

Question 14

The degree to which a person is outgoing, sociable, assertive, and comfortable with interpersonal relationships is called extroversion.

Accepted Answer

This statement defines extroversion accurately. It is one of the Big Five personality traits and refers to a person's tendency to seek out social situations, enjoy being around other people, and feel energized by social interactions.

Question 15

Recency supports the old truism that first impressions really do count.

Accepted Answer

Recency refers to the tendency to remember the most recent information better, while first impressions are related to the primacy effect, where initial information has a lasting impact.

Question 16

Organizational behavior is an interdisciplinary field dedicated to the study of how individuals and groups tend to act in organizations.

Accepted Answer

Organizational behavior is indeed an interdisciplinary field that draws on psychology, sociology, anthropology, economics, and other related disciplines to understand human behavior in organizational settings.

Question 17

Teresa is highly imaginative and an artistically sensitive individual who displays a high degree of creativity. According to the Big Five personality factors, these qualities describe her openness to experience.

Accepted Answer

Openness to experience is one of the Big Five personality factors, and it includes characteristics such as imagination, creativity, and artistic sensitivity. Therefore, Teresa's qualities do describe her level of openness to experience.

Question 18

The link between satisfaction and performance, according to research, is generally small and is affected by other factors.

Accepted Answer

Research has shown that the link between job satisfaction and job performance is generally small and can be influenced by other factors such as job complexity, job autonomy, job demands, and individual differences.

Question 19

A change in behavior or performance that occurs as the result of experience refers to perception.

Accepted Answer

A change in behavior or performance that occurs as the result of experience refers to learning, not perception. Perception is the interpretation and understanding of sensory information.

Question 20

Attribution is the cognitive process people use to make sense out of the environment by selecting, organizing, and interpreting information.

Accepted Answer

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Quiz 14: Understanding Individual Behavior