Formal Coaching

question 38

Multiple Choice

Formal coaching

• A)Can and does occur anywhere in the organization
• B)Takes place whenever a leader helps followers to change their behaviors
• C)Involves any organizational standards that pertain to the follower's career goals
• D)Begins with the manager's completion of an extensive battery of 360-degree feedback instruments

Differentiate between prototypes and exemplars, and their roles in concept formation.

Comprehend the distinction between natural and formal concepts.

Analyze how concepts aid in cognitive processes, including economizing cognitive efforts and facilitating communication.

Identify the characteristics of natural concepts as described by psychologist Eleanor Rosch.

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Definitions:

Unstable Attribution

An explanation for behavior that shifts across time, context, or situations, suggesting inconsistency in how one attributes causes to events or actions.

Stable Attribution

A belief that causes behind a person's behavior are consistent and permanent over time, attributing actions to innate characteristics.

Global Attribution

The tendency to attribute the causes of behaviors or events to broad, general factors rather than specific situational factors.

Internal Attribution

The process of ascribing the cause of behavior to an internal characteristic of the actor, rather than to external factors.