The original intent of the managers at the Hawthorne plant was to see if they could make their factory workers more productive by changing light levels in the factory. To do this, they increased the lighting for one group of workers in a special test room and kept the lights the same in the control room. They found that
a. workers in the special test room came to outperform workers in the control room.
b. workers in the control room actually and unexpectedly outperformed workers in the special test room.
c. neither group of workers showed an increase in productivity.
d. both groups of workers showed an increase in productivity.
d. both groups of workers showed an increase in productivity.
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a. ?conversion disorder b. ?somatic symptom disorder c. ?hypochondriasis d. ?somatoform pain disorder
Which view of intelligence states that intelligence is a set of mental abilities that permit individuals to adapt to any context and to select and modify the contexts in which they live and behave?
A. cognitive-developmental B. multiple intelligences C. triarchic theory of intelligence D. behaviorist
Myelinization in the nervous system is eventually finished by
a. late infancy. b. early childhood. c. middle childhood. d. early adulthood
In the research by Snarey, Son, Kuehne, Hauser, and Vaillant which focused on the issue of generativity in middle adulthood, it was found that:
a. fertile men who acted as Big Brothers to neighborhood kids were most likely to divorce a. b. infertile men who used parentlike substitute activities to encourage the development of other people's children were not likely to divorce b. infertile women who played with other people's children were least likely to adopt a child c. infertile men who engaged in narcissistic behavior were very likely to adopt a child