In a longitudinal study conducted by Howard Gardner and Bray (1988), in which 266 male managerial candidates at the business AT&T were first tested when they were in their twenties and then followed them up periodically over a 20-year time span when they were in their forties, it was observed that the most startling change was a steep drop in the ________ score for the sample as a whole.

A. ambition
B. motivation
C. dominance
D. autonomy


Answer: A

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