As a strategy for work motivation, _____ involves establishing specific, difficult but attainable goals rather than simply telling people to do their best in the absence of assigned goals

a) the workforce mastery approach
b) achievement motivation
c) goal setting
d) the industrial goal theory


Answer: c

Psychology

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Time sampling is not an effective method for sampling behavior that occurs infrequently. To observe behaviors in situations that occur infrequently, researchers choose

A. event sampling. B. defined sampling. C. random sampling. D. field sampling.

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Which symptoms are often found in association with dissociative fugue and amnesia?

a. stress and depression c. hypochondriasis and phobia b. conversion disorder and hysteria d. depression and mania

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a. blue-violet b. green c. red d. yellow e. black-white

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