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- Why is it important for managers to have a working knowledge of perception and attribution?
- When you are sitting in class, what stimuli are salient? What is your schema for classroom activity?
- Have you ever been stereotyped by someone else? Discuss.
- Which type of stereotype (sex role, age racial and ethnic, or disability) do you believe is more pervasive in organizations? Why?
- What evidence of self-fulfilling prophecies have you seen lately?
- How might your professor use the process outlined in Figure 7-2 to improve the overall performance of the students in your class?
- Have you ever experienced the Galatea effect or the Golem effect? Describe what happened.
- How would you formulate an attribution, according to Kelley's model, for the behavior of a classmate who starts arguing in class with your professor?
- Are poor people victimized by a fundamental attribution bias? Explain.
- What evidence of the self-serving bias have you observed lately?
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