In Learning from Experience: Charlene Jeter Was a Vice President

question 56

True/False

In Learning from Experience: Charlene Jeter was a vice president of marketing at SunTrust MidAtlantic until she was laid off in the last recession. As she has interviewed for a new job, she has found that employers today are looking for specialists rather than generalists.

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Definitions:

False Consensus Effect

A cognitive bias whereby individuals overestimate the extent to which their beliefs, feelings, or behaviors are shared by others.

Innovation Process

A sequence of actions involving the creation, advancement, and execution of novel concepts or items.

Heuristics

Simple, efficient rules, either hard-coded by evolutionary processes or learned, that help in making decisions, forming judgments, or solving problems.

Amabile's Components

Refers to Teresa Amabile's theory that innovation requires expertise, creative-thinking skills, and intrinsic task motivation.