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Examples of multiple-choice questions, with answers

Organisatie Psychologie (Universiteit van Amsterdam)

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Examples for multiple choice questions:

1) The _____ component of an attitude is the emotional or feeling component of that attitude.

A. affective
B. cognitive
C. behavioral
D. evaluative

2) Which factors are part of the Big 5 personality factors?

A. Surgency
B. Conscientiousness
C. Agreeableness
D. All of the above

3) Trait research on leadership suggests that we can focus on _____.

A. teaching people certain traits

B. selecting the right person for a job
C. change people to suit jobs
D. ignoring leaders traits

4) Which of the following is not a characteristic of charismatic leaders?

A. They have a vision and the ability to articulate the vision.

B. They have behavior that is unconventional.
C. They are willing to take high personal risks.
D. They exhibit behaviors that are consistent with their followers behaviors.

5) Which of the following topics is not part of organizational psychology?

A. Job satisfaction
B. Work motivation
C. Strategic personnel planning
D. Personnel selection

6) John is working for a marketing research company and conducting an experiment in which he
compares participants physiological reactions to an advertisement spot with music with their
reactions to a spot without music and a control group seeing the news. For analyzing the data John
should use ____________ .

A. Multiple regression analysis

B. Simple regression analysis
C. Chi-square analysis
D. Variance analysis

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7) A consultant is entering his clients organizations. While being shown to the CEO he carefully
observes his environment (e.g., way that people he talks to behave, furniture, architecture of the
building, etc.) to read the organizational culture. The consultant is looking at ____________.

A. The norms of the organization

B. The values of the organization
C. The assumptions of the organization
D. None of the above

8) Expectancy theory focuses on employees work motivation. Next to the expectancies, which
variable is key in expectancy theory?

A. Needs
B. Motives
C. Instrumentalities
D. Hygiene factors

9) Jim is dissatisfied but will still stay at his company. Which combination of comparison levels
corresponds to such a situation?

A. Lower social comparison level; higher comparison level of alternatives

B. Higher social comparison level; lower comparison level of alternatives
C. Lower social comparison level; lower comparison level of alternatives
D. Higher social comparison level; higher comparison level of alternatives

10) A leader high on consideration would do the following: ___________.

A. seek consensus
B. maximize leader-member relations
C. assign group members to particular tasks
D. empower employees to make their own decisions

11) Which of the following methods is a structured job interview?

A. Behavioral pattern description interview

B. Critical incident interview
C. In-depth interview
D. None of the above

12) John scored high on the need for achievement in a test based on Mc Clellands theory of
learned needs. What should his supervisor promise John to motivate him?

A. A higher salary
B. A promotion
C. A challenging new task
D. Recognition in front of his colleagues

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Correct answers are:

Question Answer
1 a
2 d
3 b
4 d
5 c
6 d
7 d
8 c
9 b
10 b
11 a
12 c

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