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Perception

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A cognitive process that enables us to interpret and understand our surroundings

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Attention

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to select the information form the environment

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Salience

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How much an object/stimuli stands out

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Bottom-Up

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characteristics of the objects

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Examples of Bottom-Up

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Brightness, Rarity, Novelty, intensity, & motion

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Top-Down

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Characteristics of the Perceiver

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Examples of Top-Down

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Goals, motivation, and biases

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Categorization

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The process of organizing people and objects into preconceived categories that are stored in our long-term memory

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Stereotyping

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Assigning traits to people based on social category membership

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Attribution Process

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Deciding wether an observed behavior or event is caused by internal or external factors

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Correspondent Inferences

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Judgment wether people’s charcter correspond to what we have observed in their actions

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Fundamental Attribution Error

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The tendency to perceive the causes of another person’s actions as different from the causes of your personal actions

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Self-Serving Bias

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When something good happens, you attribute it to internal factors

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Conformation Bias

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The tendency to screen out information that is contradictory to decisions, beliefs, values, and assumptions, and readily accept information that is confirming

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Availability Bias

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Judgements are affected based upon what most readily comes into a person’s mind

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Contrast Effects

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Making a comparison based upon what happened just before we make a decision or judgement

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Self-Fulling Prophecy

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The tendency for someone’s expectations about another to cause that individual to behave in a manner consistent with those expectations

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Halo Effect

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Occurs when a person makes a general assessment of another person or object, and then uses this general impression to interpret everything else about that person or object

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False-Consensus Effect

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When people overestimate the extent to which others have similar beliefs or behaviors to their own

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Primary Effect

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The tendency to quickly form an opinion of people on the basis of the first information we received about them

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Recency Effect

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The tendency for most recent items or experiences to be remembered best

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Complexity (Self-Concept)

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The number of distinct and important roles or identities that people percieve

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Consistency (Self-Concept)

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the degree of compatibility

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Clarity (Self-Concept)

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The degree to which you have clear, confidently defined, and stable self-conception

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Self-Esteem
extent to which you like, respect, and are satisfied with yourself
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Self-Efficacy
a belief that you can successfully complete a task
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Locus of Control
your general belief about the amount of control you have over personal life events
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Subjective Expected Utility
The probability of satisfaction from choosing an alternative
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Bounded Rationality
the way that humans make decisions that depart from perfect economic rationality since we are limited by our mental capacity, the information available to us, and time
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Maximizing
seeking the best option through an exhaustive search through alternatives
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Sacrifice
Not doing something because the alternative was chosen
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Intuition
The ability to know when a problem or opportunity exist to select the best course of action without consciously reasoning
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Action Scripts
programmed decision routines that speed up our responses to pattern (mis)matches
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Implicit Favorite
The preferred alternative
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Conformation Bias
the tendency to interpret new evidence as confirmation of one's existing beliefs or theories.
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Availability Heuristic
make decision based on what is easier to count or imagine
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Anchoring and Adjustment Heuristic
influenced by initial anchor points given
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Escalation of Commitment
generally tend to be overconfident about estimates or forecasts
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Suck Cost Fallacy
sticking with a losing or failed venture because you've already invested a significant amount of time, money, or other resources that you can't get back
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Framing
pay more attention to wether someone resembles instead of the probability of the stats
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Prospect Theory
harder to make decision when losing something
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Ethics
The study. of moral principles or values that determine wether actions are right or wrong and outcomes are good or bad
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Moral Intesity
the degreee to which an issue demands the application of ethical principles
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Ethical Sensitivity
a personal chacteristic that enables people to recongize the presences of an ethical issue and determine its relative importance
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Someone with high high ethical sensitivity is better at judging intensity?
True
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Euphemistic Language
using strategic language that makes something sound better than it is
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Example of Euphemistic Language
Layoff vs Firing
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Mindfulness
consciously thinking about wether actions might be unethical
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Moral Justification
unethical behavior is thought to be okay because it contributes to some socially valued outcomes
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Example of Moral Justification
Robinhood stealing from the rich to give to the poor
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Advantageous Comparison
Comparing your own behavior to more reprehensible behavior
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Example of Advantageous Comparison
Comparing the amount of water I use compared to a farm
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Displacement of Responsibility
reducing personal accountability by thinking of actions as resulting from an authority figures dictates
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Example of Displacement of Responsibility
Boss telling you to fudge the numbers
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Diffusion of Responsibility
reducing personal responsibility by looking to others involved
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Example of Diffusion of Responsibility
everyone else is doing it
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Distorting Consequences
Thinking of negative consequences as less serious than they are
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Example of Distorting Consequences
I only cheated because I will never use this subject
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Dehumanization
making those who would be harmed less worthy of ethical consideration because they're though to be different, stupid or less human
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Example of Dehumanization
Holocaust
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Attribution of Blame
laying blame on the victims of harm
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Example of Attribution of Blame
Pointing finger at others
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Teleological Approaches
Actions are right or wrong based on their consequences
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Types of Teleological Approaches
Utilitarianism, Egoism, & Ethics of Care
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Utilitarianism
seeking the greatest good for the greatest number of people
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Egoism
acting consistently with one's own self-interests is ethical, with individual consequences taking priority, regardless of consequences to others
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Ethic of Care
acting responsibility towards others, attending to other's well-being, and not harming others
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Types of Deontological Approaches
Individual Rights, Distributive Justice, Virtue Ethics
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Deontological Approaches
Actions are based on obligation
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Individual Rights
belief that everyone had entitlements that let her/him act in a certain way
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Distributive Justice
People who's are similar should receive similar benefits and burdens
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Virtue Ethics
Flows from the disposition and internal qualities of individuals who consistently strive to lead a moral/ethical life
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Identity
a person's unique sense of self
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Process Losses
Resources expended towards team development and maintenance rather than the task
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Social Loafing
Exerting less effort when working in teams than when working alone
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Pooled (Task Interdependence)
Shared Resources used by all
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Sequential (Task Interdependence)
Assembly line
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Reciprocal (Task Interdependence)
Parts of the task are consistently being moved between members and could be brought back tot the same person
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Faultlines
Hypoyhetical dividing lines that split a group into relatively similar subgroups based on group members' demographic alignment along multiple attributes
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Team Cohesion
The degree of attraction people feel toward the team and their motivation to remain members
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Team Norms
informal rules and shared expectations that groups establish to regulate the behavior of their members
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Team Mental Models
team member's' shared, organized understanding and mental representation of knowledge about key elements if the teams relevant environment
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Production Blocking
a time constraint that results because only one person can talk at a time
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Evaluation Apprehension
Individuals are reluctant to mention ideas that seem silly because they believe that other team members are silently evaluating them
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Groupthink
the tendency to value consensus
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Task Roles
Completing the task at hand
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Maintenance Roles
maintaining relationships and communication within the team
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Trust
The willingness to take a risk based on positive expectations of someone, regardless of your ability to monitor that person
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Ability (Trust)
wether we believe they are capable to complete the task
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Benevolence (Trust)
Acting in my best interest
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Integrity (Trust)
Ethical
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Creativity
The production of novel and useful ideas
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Innovation
Successful implementation of creative ideas within an organization
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System 1 Processing
Implicit, Automatic, Unconscious
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System 2 Processing
Explicit, Controlled, Conscious
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Components of Creativity
Creative Skills, Expertise, & Task Motivation
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Creative Skills
mix of unchanging traits in personality
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Expertise
acquired skills
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task motivation
a reason to be creative

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