Mr. Walters has many years of experience as a personal officers for a large corporation. He does not review most job applicants’ reference files because he is confident of his ability to predict their future work performance based on his direct face-to-face conversations with them. Mr. Walters’ confidence best illustrates:

Related Mcqs:

1. Aima just upgraded her software package. However, even though the updated version contains a number of more efficient methods for working with files, Aima continues to work with files the way she did before the upgrade. In this case, Aima is showing evidence of:

   A. functional fixedness
   B. belief perseverance
   C. the availability heuristic
   D. mental set

2. Waqas looked directly into a very bright light and damaged his retina. The ophthalmologist has told him that he has sustained massive damage to his rods but for the most part his cones have not been affected. One change that you could predict for Waqas’ vision is that he will now have:

   A. more accurate depth perception
   B. poor vision in bright illumination
   C. poor vision in low illumination
   D. poor peripheral vision

3. Theories explain results, predict future outcomes and:

   A. rely only on naturalistic observations
   B. guide research for future studies
   C. rely only on surveys
   D. rely only on case studies

4. Where do most qualified job applicants come from?

   A. the internet
   B. the newspaper
   C. head hunters
   D. career fairs

5. Where do most qualified job applicants come from?

   A. the internet
   B. the newspaper
   C. “head hunters”
   D. career fairs

6. Carlos is so friendly and likable that is job supervisors and co-workers often appraise his work skills and performance more positively than is actually warranted. This best illustrates evaluators’ vulnerability to:

   A. halo errors
   B. the experience of flow
   C. homeostasis
   D. homeostasis

7. An interview feels certain that he can tell who is lying in a job interview. His certainly in his ability is an example of:

   A. The halo effect
   B. Selection bias
   C. Central tendency bias
   D. Interviewer illusion

8. According to Piaget, a child who is confident that the quantity of milk is a glass does not change when it is poured into a glass of different shape is probably _________________?

   A. between 3 and 5 years old
   B. able to conserve volume
   C. in the preoperational stage of cognitive development
   D. engaging in egocentric patterns of play

9. In the 1957 Sidney Lumet film Twelve Angry Men, 12 jurors have to decide over the guilt or innocence of a young man changed with the murder of his father. At the outset, all but one of the jurors are convinced of the youth’s guilt. The lone juror (played by Henry Fond (a) actively attempts to change their minds, standing firm, committed self-confident and unwavering. One by one the other jurors change sides, until in the end they all agree that the accused in not guilty. Which form of social influence is this an example of?

   A. Conformity
   B. Minority influence
   C. Normative influence
   D. Informational influence

10. Always having been a good student, lrving is confident that he will do well in his psychology course. According to Bandura’s cognitive theory, lrving would be said to have:

    A. strong feelings of self-efficacy
    B. a sense of superiority
    C. strong feelings of self-esteem
    D. strong defense mechanisms