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COMMERCE 2BA3
ORGANIZATIONAL
BEHAVIOUR
Class 2
Personality & Learning
Perception, Attribution, & Judgment
THIS CLASS
Personality and learning
Personality traits
Experiment on learning
Learning theories
Attribution and Perceptual errors
Nupath Case
5
CH 2: PERSONALITY AND
LEARNING
Question
6
Do a personality test
Answers all 60 questions
Use the scoring key to find your average
score for each personality trait
***Remember that some questions are
reverse scored or worded negatively
(answer is marked with an R). So that
means if you answered 4, you would
change the answer to 2.***
Big Five personality
15
traits
Extroversion
Energized by spending time with
others
Sociable, assertive, comfortable in
large groups
Tendency to think out loud
Agreeableness
Defers to others
QUESTIONS?
What is Learning?
28
Enacted Mastery
You have done the task before
Verbal Persuasion
You have been told you can do it
Vicarious experience
You have watched someone else complete
QUESTIONS?
49
CH. 3: PERCEPTION,
ATTRIBUTION, AND
JUDGMENT
What do you see?
50
What is Perception?
51
Distinctiveness
IF he acts the same way in other situations
THEN we assume the behavior is internally caused
Consistency
IF he has acted like this for a long period of time
THEN we assume the behavior is internally caused
Consensus
IF other people in the same situation behave the
same way does everyone else do this?
THEN we assume the behavior is externally caused
Biases in Attribution
55
Self-serving bias
Opposite of fundamental attribution error
Perceptual Errors
56
Contrast Effect
When an evaluation is affected by a comparison
to the evaluation that preceded it
e.g., Give a presentation after an excellent or
poor one
Projection
When you assume that other people are similar
to you
e.g., You assume that your housemates will
clean their dishes right away because thats
what you always do
Perceptual Errors
58
Stereotyping
Tendency to generalize about people in a social
category and ignore variations among them
e.g., older workers dont work hard
Self-fulfilling Prophecy
Occurs when our expectations about another
person cause that person to act in a way that is
consistent with those expectations
e.g., a person who expects people to be friendly,
may smile more and thus receive more smiles
59
QUESTIONS?
Case: Nupath Foods
60