MAT 2009 Question Paper

Professionals focus their ............ on fulfilling their responsibilities and achieving results, not on ................. a particular image.

When you are living with your ........... values and principles you can be straightforward, honest and ..........

In the role of a counsellor, you are an authority figure whose objective is to .......... attentively andsensitively to employees who ............. you with their feelings.

If a junior executive neglects his professional development and ........... education, he can easily and quickly become obsolete in a world changing at .......... rates.

The political masters of the health care system have not listened to proffessional health planners because it has not been profitable for them to do that thing

Most bacterial population grown in controlled conditions will quickly expand to limit the food supply, produce toxic waste products that inhabit further growth, and reached and equilibrium state within a relatively short time

It could be argued that the most significant virtue of a popular democracy is not the right to participate in the selection of leaders, but rather that is affirms our importance in the scheme of things

Long popular among the connoisserus of Indian music, Ravi Shankar first impressed western listeners with his phenomenal technical virtuosity, but they soon came appreciate his music as an artful expression of an older culture’s musical insight.

A. We tend to see the similarity within a category as being more important, and the similarity between different categories as being less important, than either actually is.
B. Given a small amount of information about a person, we are ready to classify them as a member of a particular group, and then to infer all kinds of additional facts about them, asif all members of the group were the same in most respects.
C. Our tendency to classify and label everything can lead us into the error of seeing the world as made upof only those categories for which we have names.
D. Expecting too much of the descriptive power of languagesis itself a serious cause of distored thinking

A. Some of us, as a result, gain an overall impression of people as either all good or all bad, making further assumptions on this basis.
B. An exampleof the assumption some patients make that doctors with a good “bedside manner” are also more techically competent as others who do not relate as well to their patients.
C. This is what the psychologists refer to as halo effect.
D. We have a strong tendency of associate Positive attributes with other positive attributes and negative ones with each other.