A supervisor is given the problem to design a better doorway and presents this task to his employees by asking them to "devise ways to define separate areas for living and working.". The supervisor's revised task for his employees will
a. encourage creativity by broadly defining the problem.
b. discourage creativity because the problem has been defined too broadly.
c. encourage creativity by quickly creating mental sets.
d. prevent incubation of the problem and discourage creativity.
A
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a. Psychotherapy acts most quickly. Electroconvulsive therapy has the most lasting benefits. b. Electroconvulsive therapy acts most quickly. Psychotherapy has the most lasting benefits. c. Antidepressant drugs act most quickly. Electroconvulsive therapy has the most lasting benefits. d. Psychotherapy acts most quickly. Antidepressant drugs have the most lasting benefits.
A massive antismoking campaign in China in 1989 involved a. bonuses to employees who quit smoking
b. withdrawn salary and work benefits to those who continued smoking. c. children reporting to their schools on their fathers' smoking habits. d. married couples' written agreements to stop smoking.
Which of the following is one of Selye's three stages in the general adaptation syndrome?
A) The latency stage B) The stagnation stage C) The exhaustion stage D) The resilience stage
According to Eysenck's view of personality, an individual who would score high in ____________________ would be insensitive and cruel toward others
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word