It has been seven quarters since any employee has received a bonus at R & G Mills, so now the possibility of getting one does not seem to be motivating the workers any longer. In this case, management has inadvertently applied
A. expectancy.
B. negative reinforcement.
C. extinction.
D. intrinsic motivation.
E. punishment.
C. extinction.
Extinction is the weakening of behavior by ignoring it or making sure it is not reinforced.
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Which of the following companies would you expect to report significant amounts of cash provided by financing activities?
a. A yet-to-be-profitable biotechnology company. b. A mature company operating in the oil refinery industry. c. A profitable established company in the retail industry. d. A large multinational pharmaceutical company.
The main goal of tariffs is to
A. penalize importers for not buying domestic goods. B. increase the selling price of imported goods, thereby reducing competition for domestic producers. C. raise revenues for the importing government. D. reduce earnings for the exporting government.
What are the pros and cons of seniority?
What will be an ideal response?
For a lower tail test, the p-value is the probability of obtaining a value for the test statistic at least as
A. small as that provided by the sample. B. large as that provided by the sample. C. small as that provided by the population. D. large as that provided by the population.