When a Supervisor Evaluates the Performance of an Employee and Shows

question 62

Multiple Choice

When a supervisor evaluates the performance of an employee and shows a tendency to assign too much credit to the employee for his or her successes and too much blame to the employee for his or her failures,this is a demonstration of the ______.

• A) fundamental attribution error
• B) actor-observer difference
• C) the halo effect
• D) the similar-to-me effect

Comprehend the methods used in psychological research, including experimental, correlational, and observational methods, and their advantages and disadvantages.

Understand the importance of ethical guidelines in psychological research, including the treatment of human and animal subjects.

Understand basic spelling rules and identify spelling errors.

Comprehend the principles of capitalization and apply them in sentences.

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Definitions:

Piaget

A Swiss psychologist known for his pioneering work in the study of child development and his theory of cognitive development stages.

Assessment

The systematic evaluation or measurement of a process, person's performance, or product, often used in educational and professional settings to determine proficiency or progress.

Egocentrism

A cognitive characteristic involving difficulty in seeing the world from perspectives other than one's own, typical of young children in the preoperational stage.

Piaget

A theorist known for his work on cognitive development in children, proposing stages through which children's thinking evolves.