Chapter 3 Quiz

a) Although important, perceptions have only a minor impact on the way people respond to various situations.

b) Through perception, people process information inputs into responses involving feelings.

c) Perception is a way of forming impressions about oneself, other people, and daily life experiences.

d) Perceptions serve as a screen or filter through which information passes before it has an effect on people.

e) Through perception, people process information inputs into responses involving action.

a) Inputs, throughputs, and outputs

b) Information, facts, and data

c) Perceiver, setting, and perceived

d) Perceiver, intention, and consequence

e) Intention, meaning, and result

a) Physical, social, and organizational contexts

b) Past experiences, needs or motives, personality, values, and attitudes

c) Contrast, intensity, figure-ground separation, size, motion, and repetition/novelty

d) Attitudes, physical characteristics, contrast, and size

e) Values, organizational norms, motion, and repetition/novelty

a) information attention and selection.

b) information organization.

c) information interpretation.

d) information sending.

e) information retrieval.

a) Organization, attention/selection, retrieval, and interpretation.

b) Attention/selection, interpretation, organization, and retrieval.

c) Attention/selection, organization, interpretation, and retrieval.

d) Interpretation, retrieval, organization, and attention/selection.

e) Interpretation, attention/selection, retrieval, and organization.

a) It lets in only a tiny proportion of all of the information available

b) It should only be used sparingly because it is rarely effective

c) It is typically used in the “information retrieval” step of information processing

d) It is typically used in the “information interpretation” step of information processing

e) It is typically used in the “information organization” step of information processing

a) judicious screening

b) selective sorting

c) controlled processing

d) discriminate screening

e) discerning processing

a) script schema

b) self schema

c) domestic schema

d) person-in-situation schema

e) indigenous schema

a) Ordered schemas

b) Person schemas

c) Self schemas

d) Person-in situation schemas

e) Indigenous schemas

a) person-in-situation

b) script

c) person

d) self

e) prototype

a) associating with the “right people.”

b) doing favors to gain approval.

c) flattering others to favorably impress them.

d) taking credit for a favorable event.

e) making new job assignments.

a) You should ask yourself, “How do I want to be viewed?”

b) You should choose a username so that your future employers cannot find you online.

c) You should profile yourself only as you really would like to be known to others.

d) You should post and participate in an online forum only in ways that meet your goals for your personal brand.

e) You should view your persona as a brand.

a) stereotypes.

b) organizational system.

c) selective perception.

d) projection.

e) halo effects.

a) Stereotyping is a useful way of combining information in order to deal with information overload.

b) Stereotypes can cause inaccuracies in retrieving information.

c) Stereotypes sharpen individual differences between people.

d) Stereotypes can prevent managers from getting to know people as individuals.

e) Stereotypes can prevent managers from accurately assessing the needs, preferences, and abilities of employees.