Org Beh Ch 6

A process by which individuals organize and interpret their sensory impressions in order to give meaning to their environment.

An attempt to determine whether an individual's behavior is internally or externally caused.

the tendency to underestimate the influence of external factors and overestimate the influence of internal factors when making judgments about the behavior of others.

The tendency for individuals to attribute their own success to internal factors and put the blame for failures on external factors.

the tendency to selectively interpret what one sees on the basis of one's interest background, experience, and attitudes

The tendency to draw a general impression about an individual on the basis of a single characteristic.

Evaluation of a person's characteristics that is affected by comparison with other people recently encountered who rank higher or lower on the same characteristics.

Judging someone on the basis of one's perception of the group to which that person belongs

Choices made from among two or more alternatives.

A discrepancy between the current state of affairs and some desired state.

Characterized by making consistent value-maximizing choices within specified constraints.

A decision making model that describes how individuals should behave in order to maximize some outcome

A process of making decisions by constructing simplified models that extract the essential features from problems without capturing all their complexities

An unconscious process created out of the distilled experience.

A tendency to fixate on initial information from which one then fails to adequately adjust for subsequent information.

The tendency to seek out information that reaffirms past choices and to discount information that contradicts past judgments

The tendency for people to base their judgments on information that is readily available to them

An increased commitment to a previous decision in spite of negative information

The tendency of individuals to believe that they can predict the outcome of random events

the tendency to prefer a sure gain of a moderate amount over riskier outcome, even if the riskier outcome may have a higher expected payoff

the tendency to believe falsely after an outcome of an event is actually known that one would have accurately predicted the outcome

A system in which decisions are made to provide the greatest good for the greatest number

an individual who report unethical practices by their employer to outsiders

Analyzing how people actually behave when confronted with ethical dilemmas

The ability to produce novel and useful ideas.

The proposition that creativity involves three stages;causes (creative potential and creative environments) , creative behavior and outcomes9innovations0

The stage of creative behavior involving the identification of a problem or opportunity requiring a solution that is unknown

the stage of creative behavior when possible solutions to a problem incubate in an individual's mind

The process of creative behavior that involves developing possible solutions to a problem from one relevant information and knowledge

The process of creative behavior involving the evaluation of potential solutions to problems to identify the best ones