BUS 318 Week 1 Quiz

BUS 318 Week 1 Quiz | Ashford university

Question 1

Research in organizational behavior is based on scientific thinking, which means the proposed explanations are carefully tested and the explanations that can be scientifically verified are the only ones that are accepted.  

·         True  

·         False

 

 Question 2

Shame, guilt, embarrassment, and pride are external emotions.  

·         True 

·         False

 

 Question 3

The quality or accuracy of a person’s perceptions has a relatively minor impact on the person’s behavior.  

·         True    

·         False

 

 Question 4

Characteristics of the perceived person, object, or event - such as contrast, intensity, figure-ground separation, size, motion, and repetition or novelty - are important in the perceptual process.  

·         True         

·         False

 

 Question 5

The novelty of a situation affects a person’s perception of it.  

·         True 

·         False

 

 Question 6

Organizational behavior uses scientific methods to develop generalizations about behavior in organizations.  

·         True 

·         False

 

 Question 7

The term affect encompasses a range of feelings in the forms of emotions and moods. 

·         True  

·         False

 

 Question 8

Researchers have identified twenty major categories of emotions, each of which generally includes several subcategories.  

·         True  

·         False

 

 Question 9

As job satisfaction increases, absenteeism tends to go up; as job satisfaction decreases, absenteeism often goes down.  

·         True    

·         False

 

 Question 10

Research shows that companies with a higher percentage of female board directors and corporate officers, on average, financially outperform companies with the lowest percentages by significant margins.  

·         True 

·         False