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Organization - ANSWER-a collection of people working together to achieve a common purpose
Hawthorne "initial study - ANSWER-sought to determine how economic incentives and physical
conditions of the workplace affected the output of workers. Initial focus was on the level of illumination
in the manufacturing facilities
Theory X - ANSWER-assumes people dislike work, lack ambition, act irresponsibility, and prefer to be led
Theory Y - ANSWER-assumes people are willing to work, like responsibility, and are self-directed and
creative
Positive reinforcement - ANSWER-involves giving a reward when desired behavior occurs, in order to
increase the likelihood that the behavior will be repeated
Three components of perceptual process - ANSWER-Sensation, attention, perception
Six factors that affect the attention process - ANSWER-size, intensity, frequency, contrast, motion,
novelty
Perceptual organization - ANSWER-the process of grouping environmental stimuli into recognizable
patterns
Principles to organize sensations - ANSWER-Figure-ground, similarity, proximity, closure
Figure-ground - ANSWER-people tend to perceive objects that stand against a background
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Similarity - ANSWER-stimuli that have a common physical traits are more likely to be grouped together
than those that do not.
Proximity - ANSWER-stimuli that occur in the same proximity, either in space or in time, are oftern
associated
Closure - ANSWER-most stimuli is perceived incomplete, we naturally tend to extrapolate information
and project additional information to form a complete picture
Halo effect - ANSWER-perceptual error in which individuals allow one characteristic about a person to
influence thier evaluation of other personality characteristics
Primary effect - ANSWER-the tendency for first impressions and early information to undully influence
our evaluations and judgment
Projection - ANSWER-a form of perceptual bias in which we project our own personal feelings and
attitudes onto others as a means of helping us interpret their attitudes and feelings
Selective perception - ANSWER-a source of perceptual errors caused by people choosing to perceive
only the information that they find acceptable
Stereotyping - ANSWER-the process of using a few attributes about an object to classify it and then
responding to it as a member of a category rather than as a unique object
Discrimination and prejudice - ANSWER-unreasonable bias associated with suspicion, intolerance, or an
irrational dislike for people of a particular race, religion, or sex
Self-fulling prophecy - ANSWER-a phenomenon that occurs when a person acts in a way that confirms
another's expectations