[HROB 2100] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (40 pages long!)

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Human Resources and Organizational Behaviour
• Course: HROB 2100
• Professor: Saad Hossain

Document Summary

Chapter 2 - 2a perception, personality and emotions. Process by which individuals organize and interpret their impressions to give meaning to their environment. Because behaviour is based on perception of what reality it, not on reality itself. The world as it is perceived is the world that is behaviorally important. Everyone has their own individual reality, so you must gather all information about a person to fully understand their side of the story. To better understand how people make attributions about events. We do(cid:374)"t see realit(cid:455), (cid:449)e i(cid:374)terpret (cid:449)hat (cid:449)e see a(cid:374)d (cid:272)all it realit(cid:455) The attribution process guides our behaviour, regardless of the truth of the attribution. Tendency to underestimate external factors and overestimate internal factors when making judgments about others behaviour. Person is late to class because of bus, teacher is going to blame the student and not take into consideration any external factors.