A Committee Is Made Up of 12 Managers: Three Each

question 100

Multiple Choice

A committee is made up of 12 managers: three each from the sales, production, accounting, and human resources departments. They read a comprehensive study of the company they work for, and are asked which of its recommendations are most important. In discussion they find that the managers perceive that the most important recommendations are those concerning their own departments. This finding is most likely the result of what type of bias?

• A) Pygmalion effect
• B) selective perception
• C) halo effect
• D) self-serving bias
• E) projection

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Definitions:

Adaptive Variation

Differences among individuals in a population that result from genetic changes and environmental factors, enabling better survival and reproduction.

Genetic Polymorphism

The presence in a population of two or more alleles for a given gene locus.

Natural Selection

A fundamental mechanism of evolution where organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and reproduce more than others.

Evolution

The process by which different kinds of living organisms are thought to have developed and diversified from earlier forms during the history of the earth, driven by natural selection, genetic drift, mutations, and gene flow.