Chaim worked as a professor in a department whose chair was a tyrant. This supervisor would constantly micromanage projects, tell Chaim what to do and when to do it, and was virtually impossible to please. After three years, Chaim had lost all of his passion for teaching and decided to change careers. Chaim was experiencing ________.
A. posttraumatic stress disorder
B. the resistance stage of Selye's GAS model
C. a mental set
D. burnout
Answer: D
You might also like to view...
Your professor is telling the class that people need to develop social clocks. Thinking this is an odd phrase, you look it up in your textbook and discover that it refers to
a. how people keep track of their social appointments. b. the idea that time is a social phenomenon. c. how people evaluate whether they are on time for age-related goals. d. the influence that others have on peoples' ability to achieve their goals in a timely manner.
Based on research by Stoddart and Turiel, which two people would you expect to hold the most negative attitudes concerning the violation of gender roles (e.g., a boy wearing nail polish)?
a. A 5-year-old and a 7-year-old b. A 5-year-old and a 13-year-old c. A 7-year-old and a 9-year-old d. A 9-year-old and a 13-year-old
One important difference among the three ancient conceptions of human development— the Dharmashastras, the Talmud, and the philosopher Solon—is that they have very different ways of ____
a. dividing the lifespan into segments or stages b. defining the afterlife c. developing a sense of the lifespan based on their religious thoughts d. expressing their theories regarding development
Joe claims that he sees elves. If we put him in an fMRI during one of his experiences, where an elf danced in front of him, what would we see in the fMRI scan?
A. heightened activity in the prefrontal cortex B. decreased activity in the parietal lobes C. increased activity in the occipital lobes D. reduced activity in the temporal lobes