i1. Individual differences are important because they .
(a)mean we have to be different
(b)reduce the importance of individuality
(c)show that some cultural groups are superior to others
(d)help us more accurately predict how and why people act as they do
(d) help us more accurately predict how and why people act as they do
2.Self-awareness is awareness of others.
(a)more important than
(b)less important than
(c)as important as
(d)not at all related to
(c) as important as
3.Self-efficacy is a form of .
(a)self-awareness
(b)self-esteem
(c)nurture
(d)agreeableness
(b) self-esteem
4.Personality encompasses .
(a)the overall combination of characteristics that capture the unique nature
of a person
(b)only the nurture components of self
(c)only the nature components of self
(d)how self-aware someone is
(a) the overall combination of characteristics that capture the unique nature of a person
5.People who are high in internal locus of control .
(a)believe what happens to them is determined by environmental forces such as fate
(b)believe that they control their own fate or destiny
(c)are highly extraverted
(d)do worse on tasks requiring learning and initiative
(b) believe that they control their own fate or destiny
6.Proactive personality is in today's work environments.
(a)punished
(b)missing
(c)becoming more important
(d)losing importance
(c) becoming more important
7.People who would follow unethical orders without question would likely be high in . (a)internal locus of control
(b)Machiavellianism
(c)proactive personality and extraversion
(d)authoritarianism and dogmatism
(d) authoritarianism and dogmatism
8.Managers who are hard-driving, detail-oriented, have high performance standards, and thrive on routine could be characterized as .
(a)Type B
(b)Type A
(c)high self-monitors
(d)low Machs
(b) Type A
9.Eustress is stress, while distress is stress.
(a)constructive, destructive
(b)destructive, constructive
(c)negative, positive
(d)the most common, the most relevant
(a) constructive, destructive
10.Coping involves both and elements.
(a)cognitive, intellectual
(b)promotion, prevention
(c)problem-focused, emotion-focused
(d)cultural, psychological
(c) problem-focused, emotion-focused
11.When it comes to values, .
(a)instrumental values are more important than terminal values
(b)value congruence is what seems to be most important for satisfaction
(c)it is rare that people hold similar values
(d)most cultures share the same values
(b) value congruence is what seems to be most important for satisfaction
12.Culture is .
(a)a person's major beliefs and personal orientation concerning a range of issues
(b)the way a person gathers and evaluates information
(c)the way someone appears to others when interacting in social settings
(d)the learned, shared way of doing things in a particular society
(d) the learned, shared way of doing things in a particular society
13.The demographic makeup of the workforce .
(a)has been relatively stable
(b)is not related to managerial practices (c)has experienced dramatic changes in recent decades
(d)is becoming less of an issue for management.
(c) has experienced dramatic changes in recent decades
14.Companies that experience the greatest benefits of workforce diversity.
(a)have learned to employ people because of their differences
(b)have learned to employ people in spite of their differences
(c)have not worried about people's differences
(d)have implemented diversity programs based only on affirmative action
(a) have learned to employ people because of their differences
15.The experience in which simply having various diversity groups makes that group category salient in people's minds is an example of .
(a)stigma
(b)leaking pipeline
(c)inclusion
(d)social identity theory
(d) social identity theory
1.Perception is the process by which people and interpret information.
(a)generate
(b)retrieve
(c)transmit
(d)verify
(b) retrieve
2.When an individual attends to only a small portion of the vast information available in the environment, this tendency in the perception process is called .
(a)interpretation
(b)self scripting
(c)attribution
(d)selective screening
(d) selective screening
3.Self-serving bias is a form of attribution error that involves .
(a)blaming yourself for problems caused by others
(b)blaming the environment for problems you caused
(c)poor emotional intelligence
(d)low self-efficacy
(b) blaming the environment for problems you caused
4.In fundamental attribution error, the influence of as causes of a problem are .
(a)situational factors, overestimated
(b)personal factors, underestimated
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