Freezing of response occurs in
A. respondent conditioning
B. instrumental conditioning
C. viarious trial and error
D. both respondent conditioning and trial and error
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Which of the following best explains, why an employee behaves as he does?
A. The environment is the most important consideration in understanding individual employee behaviour
B. Both the environment and individual differences are important onsiderations in understanding individual employee behaviour
C. Neither the environment nor individual differences are important considerations in understanding individual employee behaviour
D. Employee personality and attitudes are primarily dictated by the environment
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Gender discrimination, lower appraisal rating is an example of which of the following rating methods?
A. Lenient/Strict tendency
B. Bias
C. Central tendency
D. Different tendencies
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Seeing subjective contours in a Kaniza figure
A. is a uniquely human trait
B. has no physiological basis
C. indicates that brain damage has occurred
D. suggests that the brain is fabricating a more likely interpretation of the figure
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The definition of emotions "Emotion sare intense feelings directed at someone or something" was given by
A. Robinson
B. James and Lange
C. Lazarus
D. None of the above
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Which of these is an advantage of the critical incidents methods while performing performance appraisal?
A. Minimise inventory costs
B. Negative incidents are generally more noticeable than positive ones
C. Evaluation is based on actual job behaviour
D. None of the above
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The operationalised dependent variable in Tolman's experiment was
A. the number of groups of rats
B. whether rats were shown cheese originally
C. the amount of electric shocks the rats were given
D. the time it took the rats to solve the maze
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Which of the following is/are not team building approaches?
1. Positive Reinforcement
2. Johari Window
3. Behaviour Modification
4. Domain Reshuffling
A. 1 and 3
B. 2 and 3
C. 3 and 4
D. 1 anf 4
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Stress management is concerned with
A. preventing negative stress outcomes
B. changing organisational conditions to find the right levels of stress
C. ignoring employee's to stress the right behaviours
D. all of the above
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Although, the markings in the ceiling titles are of all different shapes and sizes, you notice that larger, spots seem to stand out against a background made up of smaller, lighter ones. Which principle of perceptual grouping explains this distinction?
A. The principle of closure
B. The law of common fate
C. The law of Pragananz
D. The law of similarity
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A dynamic organisation within the individual that determine the adjustment to the environment is
A. personality
B. behaviour
C. attitude
D. perception
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Consider the following statements.
1. Sensitivity training was developed by Kurt Lewin
2. In-basket excercise is a simulated training method
3. Depth interview is also known as directive interview
4. Job evalution is carried out for promoting job satisfaction
Which of the following statements given above are true?
A. Both 1 and 3
B. Both 1 and 2
C. 1, 2 and 3
D. 2, 3 and 4
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An individual's capacity to influence decisions is
A. Control
B. Authority
C. Power
D. Role
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Informational justice refers to people's perceptions of
A. the lack of bias involved when an organisation makes decisions
B. the accuracy of the information an organisation provides to outside parties
C. the fairness of the information used as the basis for making decisions
D. the timeliness with which management distributes information to members of the organisation
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An appraisal interview which results in occasional 'well-done' technique is said to be
A. satisfactory-promotable interview
B. satisfactory-not promotable interview
C. unsatisfactory-correctable interview
D. unsatisfactory-uncorrectable interview
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Which of the following statements relating to 'role' is/are true and false?
1 The system of various roles that the individual carries and performs is 'role set'.
2. The system of various roles of which an individuals role is a part in 'role space'.
3. Self role integration, proactivity, creativity and conformation are ingredients of the role making dimension of role efficacy.
4. Role stress is caused by both role space conflict and role set conflict.
A. 1 and 3 are true, 2 and 4 are false
B. 1 and 2 are true, 3 and 4 are false
C. 1 and 2 are false, 3 and 4 are true
D. 1 and 4 are true, 2 and 3 are false
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The capacity to affect the behaviours of others is
A. Power
B. Leadership
C. Aggressiveness
D. Assertiveness
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Who has advanced 'coping styles' for role stress combining avoidance and approach to role stress with laws of control of internality and externality?
A. Lorsch and Lawrence
B. Litwin and Stringer
C. Udai Pareek
D. T. V. Rao
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Which of the following are the characteristic operant conditioning?
1. Stimulus-response association.
2. Law of contiguity in learning.
3. Law of effect.
4. Difference in UR an CR.
Select the correct answer
A. Both 1 and 2
B. Both 2 and 3
C. 1, 3 and 4
D. 2, 3 and 4
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An equal rating of all employees such as 'good', where the manager gives an average rating to all the members is called
A. lenient tendency
B. strict tendency
C. biasing tendency
D. central tendency
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