PSYCH 238- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 64 pages long!)

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Organizations: social inventions for accomplishing common goals through group effort. Management: the art of getting things accomplished in organizations through others: managerial roles. Offshoring: sending jobs somewhere else where it is cheaper. Economies of the world are becoming more interconnected. Can"t be focused on a single country. Organizational struc ture: organizational structures have flattened overtime. The process of interpreting the messages of our senses to provide order and meaning to the environment. The process through which people select, organize, and interpret information about other people: mood infuses judgements and perceptions. Perceptual shortcuts and errors in judgement at work: we need to simplify the world and we do this in a systematic matter. Primary and regencies effect: first piece of information colors rest of actions. Projection: attributing one"s own thought or characteristics to other people (ex. We believe something so everyone else believes it too.