Organizational Behavior: Solutions for Management

Paul D. Sweeney, University of Central Florida
Dean B. McFarlin, University of Dayton

Organizing Perceptions and Avoiding Biases

True/False Quiz

Please answer all questions


1	Impression formation and decision-making are important applications of perception.
		A)	True
		B)	False


2	Different individuals' perceptions about the same situations or events can vary greatly contingent upon those individuals' positions and perspectives.
		A)	True
		B)	False


3	The “contrast effect” is an internal influence that specifies attention will be attracted to things that contrast sharply with the surrounding stimuli.
		A)	TRUE
		B)	FALSE


4	Managerial reliance on an individual's self-disclosure statements is considered to be one of the most reliable sources for obtaining factual information on the individual.
		A)	True
		B)	False


5	Audience selectivity is related to audience extraction but differs in the fact that it refers more to the tendency to single out information that meets our interests.
		A)	True
		B)	False

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