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SAMPLE MCQs FOR PERCEPTION, ATTRIBUTION AND LEARNING

(CHPT3)

Fourteen (14 ) Questions for Practice

An individual's generalized belief about internal control versus external control is called:
a. self-efficacy
b. self-esteem
c. locus of control
d. self-monitoring

Individual
In possessing an internal locus of control:
s a. display high anxiety
b. tend to be dissatisfied on the job
c. prefer participative management styles
d. avoid greater responsibility

As a supervisor of a group of employees, all of whom have an internal locus of control, you should:
a. closely supervise them
b. provide explicit and frequent job instructions
c. expect to frequently discipline group members for slowness and lack of initiative
d. allow them considerable leeway in determining how to perform their work

GGGeneralized self-efficacy is the:


a. feeling of one's self-worth
b. extent to which people base their behavior on cues from other people and situations
c. belief about one's own capabilities to deal with the events and challenges that make
life demanding
d. belief about self or situational control over what happens to them

The process of interpreting information about another person is:


a. high external control
b. social perception
c. encoding
d. Evaluation

The three major categories of factors that influence one’s perception of another person include:
a. characteristics of the perceiver, the target, and the situation
b. availability of information, the target person, and the situation
c. recency of information, availability of information, and consistency of information
d. characteristics of ourselves, the target person, and consistency of information

In an interview situation, the interviewer's first impression of the interviewee (or target) is likely to be
based upon:
a. nonverbal cues of the target
b. verbal communication by the target
c. the intentions of the target
d. the target's physical appearance

1
Increasing workforce diversity is likely to reduce __________ as a barrier to social
perception.
a. the primacy effect
b. first-impression error
c. selective perception
d. stereotyping

Projection occurs most often when you:


a. surround yourself with others similar to you
b. attempt to control the impressions others have of you
c. let your expectations affect your interaction with others in a way that we get what we wish
for
d. surround yourself with others dis-similar to you

Attribution theory helps to __________ behavior in organizations.


a. measure
b. explain causes of
c. specify correct or appropriate
d. observe

When you attribute the performance in this class to the type of exams and their relative difficulty, you
are making what type of attribution?
a. internal
b. external
c. ability
d. luck

When a student attributes a high test grade to his or her diligent study habits and a low grade to the
instructor's poorly worded questions, the student is displaying:
a. the fundamental attribution error
b. the consensus error
c. the acceptance error
d. self-serving bias

The tendency to make attributions to internal causes when focusing on someone else's behavior is:
a. remedied by the discounting principle
b. known as the fundamental attribution error
c. has been shown to not be related to cultural pre-dispositions
d. known as the fundamental cognitive error

When a manager makes the attribution that an employee's lack of effort or ability is the basis for poor
performance, they are probably making an error called:
a. fundamental attribution
b. self-serving bias
c. discounting attribution
d. consistency attributions

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