Organizational Behavior Test Bank Chapter 3 2025/2026 Complete Questions and Answers

Organizational Behavior


Chapter 3

Perception and Job Attitudes

TRUE-FALSE QUESTIONS

Title: ANSWER: T REFERENCE: The Perceptual Process LEARNING OUTCOME: 1
1. An important role in social perception can be played by response salience.
a. True
b. False

Title: ANSWER: T REFERENCE: The Perceptual Process LEARNING OUTCOME: 1
2. The process by which individuals select objects in the environment for attention is referred to as
perceptual selectivity.
a. True
b. False

Title: ANSWER: F REFERENCE: The Perceptual Process LEARNING OUTCOME: 1
3. One’s perceptions are rarely influenced by an employee’s place in the corporate hierarchy.
a. True
b. False

Title: ANSWER: T REFERENCE: The Perceptual Process LEARNING OUTCOME: 1
4. A major influence on how we perceive others is represented by self-concept.
a. True
b. False

Title: ANSWER: F REFERENCE: Barriers to Accurate Social Perception LEARNING OUTCOME: 2
5. Interestingly, in organizations we find typical stereotypes related to race and gender but not age.
a. True
b. False

Title: ANSWER: T REFERENCE: Barriers to Accurate Social Perception LEARNING OUTCOME: 2
6. There is a tendency to distort information that is personally threatening through perceptual defense.
a. True
b. False

Title: ANSWER: T REFERENCE: Barriers to Accurate Social Perception LEARNING OUTCOME: 2
7. The process by which we systematically screen out information we don’t wish to hear is selective
perception.
a. True
b. False

Title: ANSWER: F REFERENCE: Barriers to Accurate Social Perception LEARNING OUTCOME: 2
8. An example of perceptual defense is acceptance with repentance.
a. True
b. False


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Title: ANSWER: T REFERENCE: Barriers to Accurate Social Perception LEARNING OUTCOME: 2
9. A situation where conflict is likely to be present is made more difficult with perceptual defense.
a. True
b. False

Title: ANSWER: T REFERENCE: Attributions: Interpreting the Causes of Behavior LEARNING OUTCOME: 3
10. The fact that people are motivated to understand their environment and the causes of particular
events is the underlying assumption of attribution theory.
a. True
b. False

Title: ANSWER: F REFERENCE: Attributions: Interpreting the Causes of Behavior LEARNING OUTCOME: 3
11. One tends to blame events rather than people with dealing with fundamental attribution error.
a. True
b. False

Title: ANSWER: T REFERENCE: Attributions: Interpreting the Causes of Behavior LEARNING OUTCOME: 3
12. A tendency to think and act in a predictable manner is cognitive consistency.
a. True
b. False

Title: ANSWER: T REFERENCE: Attitudes and Behavior LEARNING OUTCOME: 4
13. The beliefs and ideas a person has about a person or object is dealt with in the cognitive component
of attitude.
a. True
b. False

Title: ANSWER: F REFERENCE: Attitudes and Behavior LEARNING OUTCOME: 4
14. Interestingly, no predispositions are found in attitudes.
a. True
b. False

Title: ANSWER: F REFERENCE: Attitudes and Behavior LEARNING OUTCOME: 4
15. An important aspect one needs to understand about attitude is that it is a multidimensional concept.
a. True
b. False

Title: ANSWER: T REFERENCE: Attitudes and Behavior LEARNING OUTCOME: 4
16. The view developed by Pfeffer and Salancik, asserts that attitudes result from “socially constructed
realities” as perceived by the individual.
a. True
b. False

Title: ANSWER: F REFERENCE: Work-Related Attitudes LEARNING OUTCOME: 5
17. Unlike attitude, satisfaction is an objective response to a job situation.
a. True
b. False


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