421 Chapter 2
True or false: Leader development and leadership development refer to the same phenomenon - correct
answer ✔✔False
True or false: Individuals who have completed undergraduate courses in leadership are always better
leaders. - correct answer ✔✔False
A-O-R Model - correct answer ✔✔Leadership development is enhanced when the experience involves
three different processes: Action, Observation and Reflection.
The question 'how do you feel about it now?' is asked in which part of the A-O-R model? - correct
answer ✔✔Reflection
The term perceptual set refers to - correct answer ✔✔the notion that we are selective in what we attend
to and what we perceive.
Which of the following illustrates leader development?
Multiple choice question.
Enhancing the reward system in an organization to encourage collaborative behavior
Training designed to develop one's skill in giving feedback to another person
Training designed to increase shared properties of whole groups or social systems
Developing the degree of trust among all members of a team or department - correct answer
✔✔Training designed to develop one's skill in giving feedback to another person
True or false: Self-fulfilling prophecy refers to the explanations we develop for behaviors to which we
attend. - correct answer ✔✔False (It's attribution)
Undergraduate courses in leadership - correct answer ✔✔help lay the foundation
, Fundamental attribution error can best be described as - correct answer ✔✔the tendency to
overestimate the dispositional causes of behavior and underestimate the environmental causes when
others fail.
The three processes that enhance leadership development are __________ - correct answer ✔✔action,
reflection, observation
The tendency to make external attributions for your own failures yet make internal attributions for your
successes refers to - correct answer ✔✔self serving bias
How we interpret our observations takes place in the _____ component of the A-O-R model. - correct
answer ✔✔reflection
A situation in which a student attributes her classmate's bad exam score to a lack of intelligence while
the classmate attributes the poor score to unfair grading refers to the _______. - correct answer
✔✔actor-observer bias
Our tendency or bias to perceive one thing and not another is referred to as our - correct answer
✔✔perceptual set
The situation that occurs when one's expectations or predictions play a causal role in bringing about the
events one predicts is known as _____. - correct answer ✔✔self fulfilling prophecy
Explanations we develop for the characteristics, behaviors, or actions we attend to are called - correct
answer ✔✔attributions
True or false: People prefer to explain others' behavior on the basis of personal attributions even when
obvious situational factors may fully account for the behavior. - correct answer ✔✔True. The tendency to
overestimate the dispositional causes of behavior and underestimate the environmental causes when
others fail is called the fundamental attribution error.
Which is not a benefit of reflection?
Better understanding subordinates.
True or false: Leader development and leadership development refer to the same phenomenon - correct
answer ✔✔False
True or false: Individuals who have completed undergraduate courses in leadership are always better
leaders. - correct answer ✔✔False
A-O-R Model - correct answer ✔✔Leadership development is enhanced when the experience involves
three different processes: Action, Observation and Reflection.
The question 'how do you feel about it now?' is asked in which part of the A-O-R model? - correct
answer ✔✔Reflection
The term perceptual set refers to - correct answer ✔✔the notion that we are selective in what we attend
to and what we perceive.
Which of the following illustrates leader development?
Multiple choice question.
Enhancing the reward system in an organization to encourage collaborative behavior
Training designed to develop one's skill in giving feedback to another person
Training designed to increase shared properties of whole groups or social systems
Developing the degree of trust among all members of a team or department - correct answer
✔✔Training designed to develop one's skill in giving feedback to another person
True or false: Self-fulfilling prophecy refers to the explanations we develop for behaviors to which we
attend. - correct answer ✔✔False (It's attribution)
Undergraduate courses in leadership - correct answer ✔✔help lay the foundation
, Fundamental attribution error can best be described as - correct answer ✔✔the tendency to
overestimate the dispositional causes of behavior and underestimate the environmental causes when
others fail.
The three processes that enhance leadership development are __________ - correct answer ✔✔action,
reflection, observation
The tendency to make external attributions for your own failures yet make internal attributions for your
successes refers to - correct answer ✔✔self serving bias
How we interpret our observations takes place in the _____ component of the A-O-R model. - correct
answer ✔✔reflection
A situation in which a student attributes her classmate's bad exam score to a lack of intelligence while
the classmate attributes the poor score to unfair grading refers to the _______. - correct answer
✔✔actor-observer bias
Our tendency or bias to perceive one thing and not another is referred to as our - correct answer
✔✔perceptual set
The situation that occurs when one's expectations or predictions play a causal role in bringing about the
events one predicts is known as _____. - correct answer ✔✔self fulfilling prophecy
Explanations we develop for the characteristics, behaviors, or actions we attend to are called - correct
answer ✔✔attributions
True or false: People prefer to explain others' behavior on the basis of personal attributions even when
obvious situational factors may fully account for the behavior. - correct answer ✔✔True. The tendency to
overestimate the dispositional causes of behavior and underestimate the environmental causes when
others fail is called the fundamental attribution error.
Which is not a benefit of reflection?
Better understanding subordinates.
