Mark Meets Briefly with Applicants for Positions in His Company

question 221

Multiple Choice

Mark meets briefly with applicants for positions in his company and relies on his immediate gut-level first impressions in deciding whether to offer them a job.Mark's employment decisions are most clearly guided by

• A) critical thinking.
• B) an empirical approach.
• C) hindsight bias.
• D) intuition.

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Definitions:

Cultural Group

A community of individuals who share common languages, rituals, practices, and values, often tied together by a shared history or geographic origin.

Imaginary Audience

A psychological concept where an individual believes that his or her actions are the center of other people's attention, a phenomenon common in adolescence.

Sense Of Shame

A painful feeling arising from the consciousness of something dishonorable, improper, or ridiculous done by oneself or another.

Erikson's View

Psychosocial development theory proposed by Erik Erikson, which outlines eight stages of development from infancy to adulthood, each characterized by a specific crisis and its resolution.