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Chapter 4 Perception, Attribution, and the Management of Diversity
1) When managers become aware of evidence of potential discrimination, they should do all of the following EXCEPT ________.
A) pay immediate attention to the problem
B) act proactively to address the potential problem
C) review the organization's policies and practices
D) treat the potential discriminator unfairly 2) ________ is whatever the perceiver is trying to make sense of.
A) The quandary
B) The situation
C) The target of perception
D) The paradigm of possibility

3) It is essential for managers to pay careful attention to how they perceive and judge employees for all of the following reasons EXCEPT ________.
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This extracurricular anecdote may indicate that engineering hiring decisions are impacted by ________.
A) leniency bias
B) contrast effect
C) similar-to-me bias
D) halo effect

Chapter 5 Learning and Creativity

18) ________ is a relatively permanent change in knowledge or behavior that results from practice or experience.
A) Learning
B) Reconstruction
C) Behavior modification
D) Operant conditioning

19) In operant conditioning, learning occurs when the learner recognizes the link between ________.
A) a behavior and its consequences
B) a conditioned stimulus and its response
C) an antecedent and a successor
D) a negative reinforcement and its outcome
20) A teacher does not know how to handle one of her students. During her lessons, the student makes funny faces at her. The student is looking for attention from the teacher but disturbing nobody else in the class. Every time the student does this, the teacher stops the lesson and asks him why he is making faces. He doesn't answer her and continues to make the funny faces. The teacher wants to use positive reinforcement to encourage a change in this behavior. Which of the following is MOST LIKELY to change the behavior of this student with positive reinforcement?
A) The teacher pays attention to the student only when he raises his hand.
B) The teacher completely ignores the student.
C) The teacher gives stickers to all of the other students not

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