MGMT 1031 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Central Tendency, Conscientiousness, Informa
12 Oct 2015
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Attention being consciously aware of something or someone. Cognitive categories mental depositories for storing information. Schema mental picture of an event or object. Stereotype beliefs about the characteristics of a group. Infer that all people within a particular category possesses the same traits or characteristics: categorizing people into groups (e. g. age, race, occupation ) 2: form expectations of others and interpret their behavior according to the stereotype, stereotypes are maintained by overestimating the frequency of stereotypic behaviors exhibited by others. 25: event memory, semantic memory, person memory. Info about events; memories that describe sequences of events in well-known situations. General knowledge about the world; a mental dictionary" of concepts. Info about a single individual or groups of people. Monochronic time preference for doing one thing at a time because time is limited, precisely segmented, and schedule-driven. Polychronic time preference for doing more than one thing at a time because time is flexible and multidimensional.
