Take a Quiz! (MCQs on Perception and Learning)

Take a Quiz! (MCQs on Perception and Learning)

1. Perception is the process by which people ____________ and interpret information.

(a) generate

(b) retrieve

(c) transmit

(d) verify

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

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-effi cacy

4. In fundamental attribution error, the infl uence of ____________ as causes of a

problem are ___________.

(a) situational factors, overestimated

(b) personal factors, underestimated

(c) personal factors, overestimated

(d) situational factors, underestimated

5. If a new team leader changes tasks for persons on her work team mainly “because I

would prefer to work the new way rather than the old,” she may be committing a

perceptual error known as ____________.

 (a) halo effect

(b) stereotype

(c) selective perception

(d) projection

6. Use of special dress, manners, gestures, and vocabulary words when meeting a

prospective employer in a job interview are all examples of how people use

____________.

(a) projection

(b) selective perception

(c) impression management

(d) self-serving bias

7. The perceptual tendency known as a/an ____________ is associated with the

“Pygmalion effect” and refers to finding or creating in a situation that which was

originally expected.

(a) self-efficacy

(b) projection

(c) self-fulfilling prophecy

(d) halo effect

8. If a manager allows one characteristic of a person, say a pleasant personality, to bias

performance ratings of that individual overall, the manager is falling prey to a perceptual

distortion known as ____________.

(a) halo effect

(b) stereotype

(c) selective perception

(d) projection

9. The underlying premise of reinforcement theory is that ____________.

(a) behaviour is a function of environment

(b) motivation comes from positive expectancy

(c) higher-order needs stimulate hard work

(d) rewards considered unfair are de-motivators

10. The law of ____________ states that behavior followed by a positive consequence is

likely to be repeated, whereas behavior followed by an undesirable consequence is not

likely to be repeated.

(a) reinforcement

(b) contingency

(c) goal setting

(d) effect

11. ____________ is a positive reinforcement strategy that rewards successive approximations

to a desirable behavior.

(a) Extinction

(b) Negative reinforcement

(c) Shaping

(d) Merit pay

12. B. F. Skinner would argue that “getting a paycheck on Friday” reinforces a person

for coming to work on Friday but would not reinforce the person for doing an

extraordinary job on Tuesday. This is because the Friday paycheck fails the law

of ____________ reinforcement.

(a) negative

(b) continuous

(c) immediate

(d) intermittent

13. The purpose of negative reinforcement as an operant conditioning technique is to

____________.

(a) punish bad behavior

(b) discourage bad behavior

(c) encourage desirable behavior

(d) offset the effects of shaping

14. Punishment ____________.

(a) may be offset by positive reinforcement from another source

(b) generally is the most effective kind of reinforcement

(c) is best given anonymously

(d) should never be directly linked with its cause.

15. A defining characteristic of social learning theory is that it ____________.

(a) recognizes the existence of vicarious learning

(b) is not concerned with extrinsic rewards

(c) relies only on use of negative reinforcement

(d) avoids any interest in self-efficacy

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