You are new to the company, and you want your boss to see you as extremely COMPETENT. Based on your knowledge about self-presentation, which tactics would you employ?
List three specific tactics, and give a concrete example of how you would use each one.
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: Tactics: self-promotion via staging performances, claiming competence, using the trappings of competence, making excuses and claiming obstacles (self-handicapping).
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a. family b. individual c. social d. temporal
Several major steps in the rise of behavioral treatment, including Skinner's application of operant principles to therapeutic and social interventions and the introduction of systematic desensitization, took place during the
a. 1910s. b. 1930s. c. 1950s. d. 1970s.
Imagine that Janice's mother sang Daniel Powter's song "Bad Day" twice a day during her last six weeks of pregnancy. Three days after Janice was born, she was tested for her recognition of the song
Her pacifier was connected to a switch that would activate a recording of her mother's rendition of "Bad Day" or her mother singing Beyonce's "Irreplaceable." Janice could chose the song by adjusting her rate of sucking. In repeated trials, Janice always chose the familiar "Bad Day." Given these results, as well as what you have learned about auditory perception, what can you conclude? A) Janice was unable to perceive rhythmic, melodic, or tonal differences. B) Janice perceived something different about the two songs. C) Janice was able to respond to auditory stimuli only after she was born. D) Janice had little or no ability to perceive auditory stimuli before she was born.