The ________ Bias Can Explain Why Managers Doing Performance Appraisals

question 15

Multiple Choice

The ________ bias can explain why managers doing performance appraisals give more weight to recent employee behaviors than to behaviors of 6 or 9 months earlier.

• A) self-serving
• B) availability
• C) distinction
• D) confirmation
• E) hindsight

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Definitions:

Acquisition

The process of acquiring or gaining knowledge, skills, or behaviors through learning or experience.

Storage

The process by which information is encoded, retained, and retrieved in the brain.

Tip-of-the-Tongue Phenomenon

A psychological phenomenon where a person is unable to recall a familiar word or name, despite feeling that it is just out of reach.

Classical Conditioning

A learning process that occurs when two stimuli are repeatedly paired; a response that is at first elicited by the second stimulus is eventually elicited by the first stimulus alone.