Javier has just gotten a job with a new company, where he will the Assistant Chief Information Officer (CIO). He is terribly excited about this opportunity and he cannot wait to get started. After two weeks, his wife notices that he isn't as excited and has already started talking about how he wants to be the CIO! Javier's adjustment of his standard for what makes him happy is called ____
adaptation.
a. situational
b. hedonic
c. character logical
d. dispositional
b
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a. Determining who had the best physical fitness. b. Understanding scholarliness. c. Human virtues such as good character and actions. d. Defining honor and discipline.
A company that awards points to its salespeople for making a sale and then allows those points to be exchanged for vacation packages is using ________ to modify sales behavior
a. participant modeling b. symbolic modeling c. a token economy d. aversion therapy e. nondirective influence
According to Erikson, preschoolers' exuberant play and bold efforts to master new tasks break down when they
A) are threatened, criticized, and punished excessively by adults. B) identify too strongly with the same-sex parent. C) identify too strongly with the other-sex parent. D) have an overly lenient superego.
An assessment tool designed to measure a juvenile's risk of offending and related needs is ________.
A. unstructured assessment of violence risk in youth B. youth level of service/case management inventory C. improving both self-reported and observed family relations D. reducing time spent with deviant peers