1. An employee does an unsatisfactory job on an assigned project.Explain the attribution process that this persons manager will use to form judgments about this employees job performance.
2. Do you think employers must choose between agreeable employees and top performers? Based on class material, why or why not? Discuss at least three reasons for your answer.
3. How might the differences in experiences of students and instructors affect their perceptions of students written work and class comments? Explain.
4. How might your professor utilize the self-fulfilling prophecy and selective perception to increase student test scores? Explain the concepts and answer the question.
5. Heredity determines personality. (a) Build an argument to support this statement. (b) Build an argument against this statement.
6. One day, your professor comes in, and hes nervous, edgy, and argumentative. The next day, he is calm and relaxed.Does this behavior suggest that personality traits arent consistent from day to day? Explain.
7. Think of someone you know who is highly successful in his or her chosen field. What were the important personal characteristics that led to this persons success? Now think of what would have happened if that person had chosen a different line of work.Do you think this person would have been successful in any field, or can you imagine lines of work for which the person was poorly suited? Apply the concepts of self-monitoring, locus of control, self-esteem, and personality in answering these questions.
8. Sometimes the same behavioral episode in an organization for example, a fight among co-workers, a botched work assignment, or an ineffective meeting-can be organized perceptually along the lines of either a script or a prototype. How might the choice of schema affect what occurs later in the process of interpretation or judgment?