Which of the following theories of employee motivation proposes that an employee's behavior is guided by the results the employee anticipates and the value the employee places on those results?
A. Existence, relatedness, growth (ERG) theory
B. Goal-setting theory
C. Leader-member exchange (LMX) theory
D. Expectancy theory
Answer: D
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a. The therapist-client relationship is not given the same legal protection as the attorney-client relationship. b. Not a single state in the United States has included the principle of client-privileged communication in its laws. c. The therapist-client relationship has the same legal protection as the attorney-client relationship. d. Psychiatric practices are regulated in only five states in the United States.
According to the first chapter in your textbook, research in cognitive neuroscience
a. shows that most cognitive processes can be traced to a specific location in the brain. b. often obtains brain images while people are working on a cognitive task. c. is currently most likely to explore cognitive processes by using the brain-lesion method. d. has declined in its popularity during the past 10 to 15 years.
An evolutionary psychologist would focus on which reason as being the primary one for why men are more promiscuous than are women?
A) Men are more reinforced by passing on their genes than are women. B) The biological costs of reproduction are lower for men than they are for women. C) Men are more approach motivated and women are more avoidance motivated by sex. D) The reputational costs of promiscuity are more punishing for women than they are for men.
To say that science, "…looks where its tools provide the best illumination" means a. scientists tend to focus their efforts on the issues that are best suited to the research tools available
b. scientists are not interested in studying important social phenomena. c. the scientific method can be applied to every area of human experience. d. advances in science are limited only by the imagination of the scientist.