MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

1. The primacy effect is the:

(A) tendency to overemphasize recent information.

(B) tendency to overemphasize early information.

(C) tendency to overemphasize salient information.

(D) tendency to ignore early information.

(E) tendency to ignore salient information.

Answer: (B)

2. Research examining attitude change based on row (prestigious) house assignments found that:

(A) students assigned to row houses have biggest attitude change.

(B) students not assigned to row houses but reapplied next year have biggest attitude change.

(C) students not assigned to row houses and did not reapply next year have biggest attitude change.

(D) students who never applied to row houses have biggest attitude change.

(E) None of the above.

Answer: (C)

3. ____ are a person’s stable, long lasting beliefs and preferences about what is desirable.

(A) abilities.

(B) values.

(C) skills.

(D) perceptions.

(E) attitudes.

Answer: (B)

4. The five personality factors known as the "Big 5" are:

(A) self-monitoring, openness to experience, self-efficacy, agreeableness, and neuroticism.

(B) aptitude, extroversion, feeling, consciousness, and self-efficacy.

(C) type A, type B, Machiavellianism, Myers Briggs, and Emotional Intelligence.

(D) neuroticism, openness to experience, conscientiousness, agreeableness, and extroversion.

(E) introversion, perceiving, sensing, intuitive, and judging.

ANSWER: (D)

5. At Xerox, the Black Caucus focused on:

(A) performance.

(B) unionizing the workforce.

(C) social functions.

(D) external relationships with other organziations.

(E) identity.

ANSWER: (A)

SHORT ANSWERS

1. In the coursepack readings, Nemeth and Staw gave two reasons for the strain toward uniformity in groups. Name and define one of them.

2. What are the benefits and drawbacks of a homogeneous work group?

3. Most personality tests adminsitered in the workplace do not have to be overseen by a psychologist. What are the advantages and disadvantages of this?