MGT 312T Wk 2 – Practice Week 2 Knowledge Check

Perception is influenced by three key components: the characteristics of the perceiver, of the target, and of the situation.

True or False

The potential to learn and use spoken and written languages is known as linguistic intelligence.

True or False

Planting the same crop year after year:

increases damage by insects and disease.

It is always a mistake to use stereotypes.

True or False

The internal dimensions of diversity

Multiple Choice

include personality.

include race and gender.

are viewed as changeable.

include external differences.

are not apparent to others.

Intelligence cannot be modified or altered.

True or False

Prejudice is one of the most common barriers to implementing successful diversity programs.

True or False

A person who ___________ is relatively unconstrained by situational forces and effects environmental change.

Multiple Choice

is emotionally intelligent

has an internal locus of control

has a proactive personality

is an introvert

is emotionally stable

Which of the following is not one of the basic dimensions of the Big Five personality dimensions?

Multiple Choice

openness to experience

agreeableness

extraversion

conscientiousness

locus of control

In the self-serving bias, employees attribute their success to internal factors and their failures to external factors.

Managers can have great impact on fixed individual differences.

Group startsTrue or False

“Individual differences” is a narrow category only used to describe the “Big Five” personality attributes.

Perception is the process of becoming consciously aware of something or someone.

Group startsTrue or False