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1. Organizational behavior is an interdisciplinary field dedicated to the study of how individuals and groups tend to act in organizations.( )

2. Job satisfaction is work behavior that goes beyond job requirements and contributes as needed to the organization's success.( )

3. As a general rule, changing one component of an attitude can contribute to an overall change in attitude.( )

4. The link between satisfaction and performance, according to research, is generally small and is affected by other factors.( )

5. Organizations don't want to lose talented, highly skilled workers, so they try to create an atmosphere of job satisfaction.( )

6. Loyalty to and heavy involvement in one's organization refers to organizational commitment.( )

7. A positive attitude toward one's job is called cognitive attitude.( )

8. Proximity is the tendency to group sensory data because they are alike in some way.( )

9. A halo blinds the perceiver to other attributes that should be used in generating a more complete assessment.( )

10. A change in behavior or performance that occurs as the result of experience refers to perception.( )

11. Recent surveys indicate that the majority of working individuals strongly trust in their top management.( )

12. Attribution is the cognitive process people use to make sense out of the environment by selecting, organizing, and interpreting information.( )

13. Organizing the selected data into patterns for interpretation and response is the last step in the perception process.( )

14. Recency supports the old truism that first impressions really do count.( )

15. The tendency to see one's own personal traits in other people refers to attribution.( )

16. From attributions viewpoint, if the behavior is in consensus, the perceiver will probably respond to similar situations in the same way.( )

17. From attributions viewpoint, if the behavior is distinctive, the perceiver probably will make an internal attribution.( )

18. Self-serving bias is when people give themselves too much credit for what they do well and give external forces too much blame when they fail.( )

19. An internal attribution says something about the situation has caused the person's behavior.( )

20. Teresa is highly imaginative and an artistically sensitive individual who displays a high degree of creativity. According to the Big Five personality factors, these qualities describe her openness to experience.( )

21. The degree to which a person is outgoing, sociable, assertive, and comfortable with interpersonal relationships is called extroversion.( )

22. The degree to which a person is able to get along with others by being good-natured, likable, cooperative, forgiving, understanding, and trusting is agreeableness.( )

23. The degree to which a person is focused on a few goals, thus behaving in ways that are responsible, dependable, persistent, and achievement oriented is conscientiousness.( )

24. The degree to which a person is calm, enthusiastic, and self-confident, rather than tense, depressed, moody, or insecure is emotional stability.( )

25. According to research, seven in ten top executives test out to be introverts.( )

26. Person-job fit is the extent to which a person's ability and personality matches the requirements of a job.( )