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Foundations of Individual Behavior 2
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Foundations of Individual Behavior 2
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1. Emotional intelligence and academic intelligence are virtually identical.
2. The ability to control one's own emotions is an important component in emotional intelligence.
3. People from the Middle East tend to believe that life is not predetermined and they can control their own destiny.
4. In stereotyping, observers use group characteristics to judge individuals.
5. According to John Holland's theory, a realistic personality type might be well-suited to be an economist.
6. Employees with high self-esteem tend to be more satisfied with their jobs than low SEs.
7. Negative reinforcement penalizes an individual for an undesired behavior.
8. Negative reinforcement is the withdrawal of something unpleasant.
9. The fundamental attribution error states that individuals tend to overestimate the influence of external factors in others.
10. The discomfort that results from high dissonance can be reduced when an individual feels that she has a choice in the matter.
11. A person who is risk-averse might do well as a stock trader.
12. Research shows that high job satisfaction correlates with high productivity.
13. U.S. workers, more than Iranian workers, would likely have an external locus of control.
14. Operant behavior deals only with learned behavior.
15. Attitudes are evaluative statements concerning objects, people, or events.
16. A high Mach person tends to think that ends justify means.
17. A low self-monitoring employee would be likely to be a good poker player.
18. Distortion of perception can only come from the person who is perceiving.
19. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® test can identify thousands of different basic personality types.
20. Social learning theory maintains that models who are different from ourselves have the greatest influence on our behavior.
21. A worker with an external locus of control would tend to blame failure on himself.
22. Personality is defined as a unique combination of behavioral, emotional, and thinking patterns that each person has.
23. When a manager praises an employee for a job well done, she is providing positive reinforcement.
24. One of the challenges in understanding organizational behavior is that it addresses issues that aren't obvious.
25. Organizational behavior is primarily concerned with group interactions.