Question 1

The point at which a person notices that something has changed in the environment is the

Accepted Answer

The detection threshold, also known as the absolute threshold, is the point at which a person becomes aware of a minimal change in an environmental stimulus.

Question 2

When a supervisor notices that an employee's tone of voice has changed, the supervisor's _____________ has been reached.

Accepted Answer

The recognition threshold refers to the point at which a stimulus is strong enough to be noticed or recognized. In this context, the supervisor notices a change in the employee's tone of voice, indicating that the recognition threshold has been reached.

Question 3

Which of the following statements is not true about the perceptual process?

Accepted Answer

People more quickly attend to negatively valued stimuli is not true about the perceptual process.

Question 4

An employee only listens to a supervisor's positive feedback and not the negative feedback. This is an example of

Accepted Answer

Perceptual defense is a psychological mechanism that helps individuals to avoid acknowledging negative feedback or threatening information, leading them to selectively attend to positive feedback while ignoring negative feedback.

Question 5

Which of the following factors does not affect one's self-concept?

Accepted Answer

Self-consciousness is more a result of one's self-concept rather than a factor that affects it. Factors that affect self-concept include recall of past events, observations of own behavior, and social context, as they directly influence how individuals perceive themselves.

Question 6

Which of the following is not part of self-perception?

Accepted Answer

The answer of Which of the following is not part...

Question 7

Which of the following statements is false?

Accepted Answer

People often overestimate, rather than underestimate, their role in past events, a phenomenon related to egocentric biases.

Question 8

Which of the following statements is false?

Accepted Answer

Self-consciousness does not affect a person's self-concept.

Question 9

Which of the following information sources do people use when forming impressions of another person?

Accepted Answer

People use information from the person, the situation, and the observed behavior of the person when forming impressions of another person.

Question 10

Which of the following is not information used by perceivers to form attributions?

Accepted Answer

Situational information is not specifically used to form attributions in the same way as distinctiveness, consensus, and consistency information. Attribution theory focuses on how people interpret and explain causal relationships in the social world. Distinctiveness information (how an individual's behavior varies from one situation to another), consensus information (how an individual's behavior compares with others' behavior), and consistency information (how consistent an individual's behavior is over time) are directly used to determine whether an action is attributed to internal or external causes. Situational information can influence attributions but is not categorized as a distinct type of information like the others.

Question 11

A manager tries to explain why an employee is late for work and uses information about whether other employees are late. She is using which type of information in making her attribution?

Accepted Answer

The manager is using consensus information, which refers to how similarly other people behave in the same situation. If many employees are late, it suggests an external factor affecting everyone, rather than something specific about the individual employee.

Question 12

Perceivers who try to explain the causes of behavior use ______________ information when they observe other people in similar situations.

Accepted Answer

Consensus information is used when perceivers observe how different people behave in the same situation. If many people behave similarly in a given situation, the behavior is said to have high consensus, suggesting that the cause of the behavior is likely due to the situation rather than individual dispositions.

Question 13

A manager has noticed that a subordinate is not friendly to coworkers and is not friendly in social situations outside work. The manager is using ______________ information when explaining the cause of the unfriendliness.

Accepted Answer

Distinctiveness information refers to how differently a person behaves in different situations. If the subordinate is unfriendly both at work and in social situations, it indicates low distinctiveness, suggesting that the unfriendliness is a consistent trait across different contexts.

Question 14

Managers who try to explain causes for an employee's behavior use ______________ information when they observe the employee in several different situations.

Accepted Answer

Distinctiveness information is used when managers observe an employee's behavior across different situations to determine if the behavior is unique to a particular situation or consistent across various situations. This helps in understanding the causes of the behavior.

Question 15

Perceivers who try to explain the causes of behavior by observing a person in similar situations at different times are using ______________ information.

Accepted Answer

Consistency information involves observing a person's behavior in the same situation across different times to understand the causes of their behavior. If the behavior is consistent over time, it suggests that the behavior is likely due to the person rather than the situation.

Question 16

A professor has noticed that a student is late for class on many occasions throughout the semester. This professor will use ______________ information when explaining the cause of the student's lateness.

Accepted Answer

The professor will use consistency information, as it refers to how consistently the behavior (in this case, the student's lateness) occurs across different situations. Since the student is late on many occasions, their behavior is consistent, leading the professor to consider this information when explaining the cause of the lateness.

Question 17

An executive tries to explain why her vice-president of finance has performed poorly on the current project. The executive noticed that the vice-president had performed well on similar projects in the past. The executive is using ______________ information in forming her situational attribution for the vice-president's poor performance on the current project.

Accepted Answer

The answer of An executive tries to explain why her...

Question 18

Susan's coworker Mary has been late to work on several recent occasions. Susan has also noticed that Mary is late to their after-work social engagements and their weekend shopping trips. Susan is using ______________ information in forming a personal attribution for Mary's lateness.

Accepted Answer

Low distinctiveness is indicated by Mary being late to not just work but also to social engagements and shopping trips, showing a pattern of lateness across different situations.

Question 19

Which of the following patterns of attribution information likely leads perceivers to make a situational attribution?

Accepted Answer

High consensus, low consistency, and high distinctiveness typically lead perceivers to make a situational attribution because the behavior is seen as common across people (high consensus), not common across time for the person involved (low consistency), and specific to the particular situation (high distinctiveness).

Question 20

Which of the following patterns of attribution information likely leads perceivers to make a personal attribution?

Accepted Answer

High consistency, low consensus, and low distinctiveness lead perceivers to attribute the behavior to something personal about the individual rather than the situation, fitting the pattern for making a personal attribution.

Quiz 5: Perception, Attitudes, and Personality

The point at which a person notices that something has changed in the environment is the

When a supervisor notices that an employee's tone of voice has changed, the supervisor's _____________ has been reached.

Which of the following statements is not true about the perceptual process?

An employee only listens to a supervisor's positive feedback and not the negative feedback. This is an example of

Which of the following factors does not affect one's self-concept?

Which of the following is not part of self-perception?

Which of the following statements is false?

Which of the following statements is false?

Which of the following information sources do people use when forming impressions of another person?

Which of the following is not information used by perceivers to form attributions?

A manager tries to explain why an employee is late for work and uses information about whether other employees are late. She is using which type of information in making her attribution?

Perceivers who try to explain the causes of behavior use ______________ information when they observe other people in similar situations.

A manager has noticed that a subordinate is not friendly to coworkers and is not friendly in social situations outside work. The manager is using ______________ information when explaining the cause of the unfriendliness.

Managers who try to explain causes for an employee's behavior use ______________ information when they observe the employee in several different situations.

Perceivers who try to explain the causes of behavior by observing a person in similar situations at different times are using ______________ information.

A professor has noticed that a student is late for class on many occasions throughout the semester. This professor will use ______________ information when explaining the cause of the student's lateness.

Susan's coworker Mary has been late to work on several recent occasions. Susan has also noticed that Mary is late to their after-work social engagements and their weekend shopping trips. Susan is using ______________ information in forming a personal attribution for Mary's lateness.

Which of the following patterns of attribution information likely leads perceivers to make a situational attribution?

Which of the following patterns of attribution information likely leads perceivers to make a personal attribution?