BCOR 2202 QUIZ 1 2025 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
An incompatibility or conflict between behavior and an attitude or between two different attitudes - Answer-cognitive dissonance
______ is not as stable as personality - Answer-attitude
Our attitudes or feelings about our job, the factors with the...
An incompatibility or conflict between behavior and an attitude or between two different
attitudes - Answer-cognitive dissonance
______ is not as stable as personality - Answer-attitude
Our attitudes or feelings about our job, the factors with the greatest influence are the
work itself, attitudes, values, and personality - Answer-job satisfaction
The degree to which an employee identifies with the organization and its goals and
wants to stay with organization - Answer-organizational commitment
Positive emotional attachment to the organization - Answer-affective commitment
Feeling obligated to stay with org for moral or ethical reasons - Answer-normative
commitment
Staying with org because they feel like they have to b/c of social and economic costs of
leaving - Answer-continuance commitment
A heightened emotional and intellectual connection that an employee has for his job,
organization, manager, or coworkers that, in turn, influences him/her to apply additional
discretionary effort to his/her work - Answer-employee engagement
_____ are intense, short-term physiological, behavioral, and psychological reactions to
a specific object, person, or event that prepare us to respond to it - Answer-emotions
____ - thought of as a judgement about something, an ______ is experienced or felt -
Answer-attitude, emotion
what lasts longer emotions or attitudes - Answer-attitudes
_____ influence how we perceive the world - Answer-emotions
what plays a larger role in behaviors- emotion or reasioning? - Answer-emotion
, short term emotional states that are not directed toward anything in particular, harder to
cope with, last for days or weeks - Answer-moods
represents our tendency to experience a particular mood or to react to things with
certain emotions - Answer-affectivity
the set of forces that causes people to engage in one behavior rather than some
alternative behavior - Answer-motivation
Motivated behavior usually begins when a person has one or more important ____ -
Answer-needs
a. Traditional approach is the _____ ____= assumes that employees are economically
motivated and work to earn as much money as they can - Answer-scientific method
assumed that employees want to feel useful and important, that employees have strong
social needs, and that these needs are more important than money in motivating
employees - Answer-human relations approach
assumes that people want to contribute and are indeed needed to make genuine
contributions - Answer-human resource approach
arises from an individuals desire to accomplish a goal or task more effectively than in
the past - Answer-need for achievement
the need for human companionship - Answer-the need for affiliation
the desire to control ones environment - Answer-the need for power
based on how much we want something and how likely we think we are to get it -
Answer-the basic expectancy model
a persons perception of the probability that effort will lead to successful performance -
Answer-effort to performance expectancy
a persons perception of the probability that performance will lead to certain other
outcomes - Answer-performance to outcome instrumentality
______ is anything that might potentially result from performance and ___ of an
outcome is the relative attractiveness or unattractiveness (the value) of that outcome -
Answer-outcome, valence
a simple form of learning in which a conditioned response is linked with an unconditional
stimulus (ex. An employee receives bad news from his boss and comes to associate the
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